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Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: RLamb on May 19, 2007, 03:12:41 pm: Hi all,

Sorry yet another question. I'm using a mini-B USB cable to try to transfer files to my Zaurus from my laptop, and my PC detects it (as an SL-1000 strangely), however when I click on the 'removable disk' in my computer it just says to "please insert a disk into drive E:".

Am I missing something or is there an issue with PC transfer using 3200/pdxii3?
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: Jon_J on May 19, 2007, 03:46:06 pm: Open system tools > USB
At the bottom, select Storage.
Then select one of these 3 selections, depending which media (on your Zaurus) you want to copy files from.
1. Secure Digital (SD)
2. Compact Flash (CF)
3. Internal Storage
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: RLamb on May 19, 2007, 04:55:35 pm: OK thats worked great thanks. Little confused though I can't see anything on the drive except a single shortcut with title 'data', but I can't click on it. Says there is only 8kb used on the drive, and 3.42gb free.

How does it work then if I copy from my laptop to Zaurus where will the files go? What about if I wanted to do it the other way round and copy from Zaurus to laptop?

Thanks again mate, you've been so helpful these last few days!!

edit: Just remembered that the install process created several partitions so I'm assuming all the actual OS/application data is on another partition that isn't visible and this that I see now is a FAT32 partition viewable in both Zaurus and Windows?

I still don't quite get how the pdaXi33 is setup partition wise, but I'l try copying it over to the Zaurus drive I see, and then finding it on my Zaarus.
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: RLamb on May 19, 2007, 05:15:04 pm: I've copied it over but I can't seem to find it

How can I access the partition from my Zaurus?

edit: Also if anyone could give me a quick rundown of how the filesystem is laid out in pdaXii3 or link to me where I can find out that would be glorious
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: Jon_J on May 19, 2007, 05:15:18 pm: Quote
OK thats worked great thanks. Little confused though I can't see anything on the drive except a single shortcut with title 'data', but I can't click on it. Says there is only 8kb used on the drive, and 3.42gb free.

How does it work then if I copy from my laptop to Zaurus where will the files go? What about if I wanted to do it the other way round and copy from Zaurus to laptop?

Thanks again mate, you've been so helpful these last few days!!
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You are looking at your FAT partition. It is mounted as /data
If you do a df -h in a console, you'll see it as
/dev/hda3 and mounted on /data
It is empty because you haven't copied anything to it yet.
I'm not sure what the "data" shortcut is for, meanie will have to answer this. I have tried to delete it, but it always comes back.
When using storage mode, you can NOT view or work with your linux partitions, you'll only be able to access SD, CF, or your FAT formatted /hda3 (/data)

The above is mainly referring to people that use windows on their PC/Laptops
There are exceptions to being able to access your linux partitions when using USB storage mode, but that is better left to someone with more linux knowledge than me.
One instance would be someone that uses linux only on their PC/Laptops, (and there are a large number of people here that use linux on their other machines)
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: RLamb on May 19, 2007, 05:19:33 pm: OK thanks mate I've found it. I actually did try plugging it into my ubuntu OS on main PC but it didn't see it from what I could gather. However when I unplugged it my USB modem stopped working so I'm not sure what happened I haven't done anything to my Zaurus by pulling it out without unmounting it or anything have I?
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: RLamb on May 19, 2007, 05:20:59 pm: Also, I don't really understand the root and fakeroot folders, and how everything ties in. If an application says to extract to /opt for example, where about do I put it in the filesystem?
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: Jon_J on May 19, 2007, 05:21:28 pm: on a fresh install on a C3200, pdaxii13 will show this.
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Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 121.0M 57.7M 63.3M 48% / none 12.0M 12.0k 12.0M 0% /dev /dev/hda1 2.0G 32.3M 1.9G 2% /mnt/ide /dev/hda3 3.4G 65.3M 3.4G 2% /data /dev/hdc1 989.3M 287.2M 702.1M 29% /mnt/cf /dev/mmcda1 1.9G 417.4M 1.5G 22% /mnt/card
EDIT: the above is an install to NAND only without the full upgrade.
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: RLamb on May 19, 2007, 05:25:28 pm: Yea it all seems to get changed quote a lot with the full upgrade, especially the root and fakeroot folders its all quite confusing. I'l have search round here and see if I can find a thread explaining it.

Thanks again for all your help.
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: Jon_J on May 19, 2007, 05:26:19 pm: You should always unmount drives or media after copying files. Most people unmount every time, but I am sure if you just "looked" at a drive, you could disconnect it without unmounting it.
Title: Connecting My 3200 To Pc As Mass Storage Device?
Post by: RLamb on May 19, 2007, 05:29:18 pm: I 'safely removed hardware' from windows after copying, but this was after plugging into ubuntu however it didn't show up at all in 'Computer', and therefore I don't think it was seen let alone mounted just got a bit worried after my USB modem stopped working until I replugged it in