Bug 18678

Summary: iriver E100 is broken in USB Mass Storage mode
Product: hal Reporter: Patrick Walton <pcwalton>
Component: haldAssignee: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: Relevant hal-device listing.

Description Patrick Walton 2008-11-23 16:08:58 UTC
Created attachment 20526 [details]
Relevant hal-device listing.

The iriver E100 can operate in MTP or USB Mass Storage mode. In USB mass storage mode, it's broken: HAL does not give it any volume.* properties, so it can't be mounted through HAL.

This player is a little unusual (broken?) in the Mass Storage mode in that it does not export a partition table for any of its Mass Storage endpoints. Instead it exports two VFAT partitions that appear to the kernel as distinct drives: one for the internal microSD storage and one for the internal storage. Thus even after deleting all relevant HAL entries and making it appear as a pen drive, HAL still can't mount it.

I tried to teach HAL about this by manually adding volume.* properties but to no avail, so I'm throwing this here in the hopes that someone with more HAL wizardry than I can do it. :)

Attached please find the hal-device listing.

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