Re: [Ifp-driver-common] Re: formatting a UMS iRiver for use on linux

[Michael S. <ms...@CL...>]

Hey, I have the 180T and when I formated mine with the latest UMS
firmware, I still had to go back and build a file system on it ---
apparently my device isn't capable of building a file system itself.


On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:26, David Obadia wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Was anyone able to do a "fdisk /dev/sda" on an IFP 390 with the latest
> UMS firmware? I wasn't with Linux 2.4.23.
> 
> Please let me know what worked out for you. I'd like to get rid of those
> partitions for the drive to self-format as Javier said.
> 
> Thanks-
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14 (03:46), Javier Marcet wrote:
> > The best way I found to have an acceptable MBR on the iRiver player,
> > without those silly four primary partitions which windows creates, out
> > of which only one is usable (/dev/sda4 on linux), is to simply do a
> > 'fdisk /dev/sda'
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Michael Speth
Computer Engineer
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