Ubuntu 7.10 and Neuros HD DAC

[joe.beiter@verizon.net]

I bought a Neuros HD about a year ago and have been using it with Sorune and Redhat Linux relatively pain free. I recently moved to Ubuntu 7.10 and now there is no joy with my Neuros Audio player.

Sorune can't find it regardless what I do. I was finally able to get Ubuntu to auto-mount the HD after running "modprobe -r ehci_hcd" but Sorune can't find it. I tried loading ndbm but that program has issues with it and I'm concerned it was written for another product and might wipe my Neuros out.

I don't think Ubuntu is playing nice with the device.. my major clue being the following output:

jwb@glyph:~/ndbm$ ls -al /media/IDW\ IO\ D001/
total 0
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/.
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/..
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/BAK_DB
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/bkpk.sn
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/.DS_Store
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/music
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/sn.txt
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/sorune
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/.Trashes
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/._.Trashes
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/version.txt
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/woid_db
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/WOID_RECORD
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /media/IDW IO D001/WOID_SYNC

any advise on how to mount this properly and consistently and if I should be using something else to manage the music? I did try to just copy music files to the Neuros using the file browser but they never show up in the "Neuros Audio" areas to play.

[Jeffnik]

I've been using the NDBM for quite a while and I've always had pretty good luck with it on Slackware.

Sometimes when synchronizing NDBM will throw an error when it is writing the database.  I'm not 100% certain why this happens and it makes it appear that the music didn't transfer, but using the "rebuild database" menu option it'll stroll through your Neuros' HD and correct the database.

[joe.beiter@verizon.net]

I took a leap and erased the woid_db directory, created an empty database, then did a rebuild. It seemed to be finding all of my music but then at the end it failed with the error "null/media/IDW IO D001/ndbm/2007-12-09/14.33.48/woid_db/audio.mdb (No such file or directory)."

If I try to "add tracks", it will queue it up but when I try to sync I  get a similar error giving the path to the music directory on the DAC, ending in the file name.  "/media/IDW IO D001/music/King's X/Faith Hope Love/01 We Are Finding Who We Are.mp3 (No such file or directory)"

In this current state, I can't even play music anymore. If I try to navigate past "songs" or "artists" it just says "No Records Available".

[Jeffnik]

I think I may've jury-rigged something at one point.

On my KDE desktop I get an icon for the removable device as soon as I plug my Neuros into the proper USB slot.  I can then right-click mount from there, but checking my "media" directory I don't have a listing for the Neuros, but it does have a mount-point in with /mnt/neuros

I have the following line in my fstab:
/dev/sdc1       /mnt/neuros     auto    umask=007,gid=100,sync,noauto,users 0       0

So apparently my system is somehow identifying the Neuros as a SCSI device.  I'd have to do more digging to see how I actually worked that one out, but even from the properties KDE displays, it shows:
Base URL: file://mnt/neuros
Device Node: /dev/sdc1

I don't know if this will help at all, but if you want I can try to look a bit closer and see what I've got going on here.

[joe.beiter@verizon.net]

that was my problem, it didn't like the mount path. Thanks Jeff!