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can manually mount my mp3 player [Sony nwz-A726] but it isn't autodetecting in Hardy

Asked by Deidre

Just upgraded to Hardy Heron, my sony nwz-A726 mp3 player worked well with gutsy it was autodetected and I was able to unmount it with no problems. Since the upgrade it is not being autodetected but I can manual mount it, un fortunately I can now no longer unmount it, am told - umount: /media/WALKMAN is not in fstab (and you are not root).
Have looked through previous questions and have followed some advice:
dpkg--configure-a showed everything ok
fdisk -1 couldn't see anything wrong and the same with blkid - but quite frankly have no idea what I'm looking for.
One other suggestion was for /etc/fstab but that instruction did not work for my player.
Did manage prior to all this when having problems with amarok to get the following data for my player:
Firmware 0110
Connection USB 2.0 @ 480mbps
Mount /media/WALKMAN
File vfat
rw nosuid nodev uid=1000 fmask=0077 dmask=0077
Mount code page = cp437 iocharset=iso 8859-1 shortname=mixed usefree UTF8
UUID=0000-0002
File vfat[fat32]
I obviously need to get it into fstab but how??
appreciate any help, thanks

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kabotage (kabotage) said : 		#1

Maybe this would help.

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Read here for more info about fstab

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283131

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Deidre (lovelld) said : 		#2

Hi, thanks for that. I will give it a go once I've read it all and hopefully understood it

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Deidre (lovelld) said : 		#3

Finally able to get it to be auto detected but still think somethings not right, as I still can't unmount it as it still gives the message "umount: only root can unmount UUID=0000-0002 from /media/WALKMAN"
I'll have another go in fstab

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Deidre (lovelld) said : 		#4

Sorry forgot to say that I can manually eject with sudo eject /media/WALKMAN

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kabotage (kabotage) said : 		#5

It is automatically mounted by root on bootup and you need to modify fstab.

to do that try this.

lets assume your its sda

/dev/sda /media/Walkman ntfs defaults,user,nls=utf8,umask=0222,gid=46 0

replace user with "users" , user option only allows the same user who mounted the partition to unmount it. It should work now.

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Deidre (lovelld) said : 		#6

Sorry re late reply spent ages on this problem with no fix in the end, reinstalled and upgraded to 8.10, works like a dream now