mounting the micro-sd card on a sansa e280

Hi,
thank you for the tip on making the directories stay visible.
Another problem:
In Windows XP the sansa and the micro-sd card in the sansa show up as two different drives.
In Linux (SLAMD64 12.0) I connect a usb cable to the device and then:
ls /dev/disk/by-id/
and it shows two partitions, the sansa operating system and the sansa music area:

usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-8680b38a-d925e817-00000000-0:0
usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-8680b38a-d925e817-00000000-0:0-part1
usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-8680b38a-d925e817-00000000-0:0-part2

I can mount the music area just fine
mount /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-8680b38a-d925e817-00000000-0:0-part1 /media/sansa-main

but the micro-sd disk does not show up in /dev.

This is a multi-lun device, so we tried to re-scan the LUNs with a sudo script that we use for 6-in-1 card readers:
#!/bin/sh
cd /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage/
for x in `ls ?-* -d `
do
echo "found: "$x
echo -n $x > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage/unbind
echo -n $x > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage/bind
echo "">/dev/null
done
this rescans the LUNS of found devices and reports what it finds. It fixes the problem of switching different cards on a 6-in-1 reader such as is built in my monitor, otherwise you have to reboot to switch types of cards.
But the sansa card does not show up even scanning for all LUNs.

Do you know a solution to mounting the Micro-sd card in a in Linux? I really would like the extra 4 gb capacity.

Um...works for me?

Steve,

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but I can't replicate your problem. Of course, I don't actually use the Sansa to put things on my microSD card, as the card is for my cell phone and I have an SD card reader anyway, but I tried it just now and it works perfectly. I'm using Kubuntu 7.10 (32-bit desktop version), and when I stick a card in my Sansa and plug it in, two file manager windows pop up: one for the internal flash and one for the microSD card.

In my case, /dev/disk/by-id actually contains 5 files for the Sansa - a 2-partition device for the internal storage and a 1-partition one for the microSD card.
usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-9844b4a4-b41fe817-00000000-0:0 -> ../../sdf
usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-9844b4a4-b41fe817-00000000-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdf1
usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-9844b4a4-b41fe817-00000000-0:0-part2 -> ../../sdf2
usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-9844b4a4-b41fe817-00000000-0:1 -> ../../sdg
usb-SanDisk_Sansa_e280_00000000-00000000-9844b4a4-b41fe817-00000000-0:1-part1 -> ../../sdg1
I'm not sure why you don't see it. I'd guess it's a difference in default driver and/or udev configuration between SLAMD64 and Ubuntu, but I wouldn't even know where to start looking to fix it.

But, if nothing else, I can tell you the microSD port can *definitely* be made to work in Linux. I just don't know how you'd do it.

Fixing Sansa attributes

mounting the micro-sd card on a sansa e280

Um...works for me?