Apacer Audio Steno BP300 on Linux

Setup

• Redhat 9
• Kernel: 2.4.21 (compiled myself with standard Redhat configuration, not standard from Redhat, but both should work)

Making it work

1. Connect the mp3 player to you computer :-)
2. Look at /var/log/messages to see that is usb-storage module is loaded. This is how it looks like when I connect the BP300:

   Aug 31 13:14:17 ludvig kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-1, assigned address 14
   Aug 31 13:14:20 ludvig /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 1005/1001/1
   

   Also run a lsmod to make sure, should look something like this:

   usbcore                78080   1  [pwc usb-storage hid usb-ohci]
   

3. Run sfdisk -s to see which device the mp3 player is. My output shows:

   /dev/sda:   1048575
   /dev/sdb:   1048575
   /dev/sdc:    125952
   /dev/hda:  20039544
   /dev/hdb:  58615704
   total: 80878350 blocks
   

   I know that the size is 128 Mb, so it is clearly located at /dev/sdc
4. Make a mountpoint (mkdir /mnt/usbmp3)
5. mount the player: mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbmp3/
6. The player is now available at /mnt/usbmp3 :-)