Sansa MP3 player does not mount

[Matthew Clarke]

Hello all,

My new Sansa player does not mount correctly/automatically in Ubuntu.
The automatic mounting facilities in ubuntu don't seem to be figuring
it out properly.  After connection a dialog pops up saying "Cannot
mount volume, Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume
'Sansa e260'"

the process does create an entry in the left side of nautilus for the
player called "Sansa e260' but I get the same error msg as above when
I try to access it.

I can mount it manually using a mount command with the fs set as vfat.
 However this is clunky, creates duplicate entries in nautilus and I
still haven't got all the various settings right to make it all
seamless.

here's the dmesg dump: (it comes up as with 2 partitions bec of the
microSD slot in the device... I think)

[269782.073315] usb 7-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[269783.115588] usb 7-1: configuration #128 chosen from 1 choice
[269783.323138] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[269783.348279] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[269783.350140] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[269783.350199] usb-storage: device found at 4
[269783.350202] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[269783.350205] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[269783.350208] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[269788.346975] usb-storage: device scan complete
[269788.347975] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Sansa e260
        PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[269788.348971] scsi 8:0:0:1: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Sansa e260
        PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[269788.350701] SCSI device sdd: 7854080 512-byte hdwr sectors (4021 MB)
[269788.351699] sdd: Write Protect is off
[269788.351703] sdd: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
[269788.351706] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
[269788.354197] SCSI device sdd: 7854080 512-byte hdwr sectors (4021 MB)
[269788.355071] sdd: Write Protect is off
[269788.355075] sdd: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
[269788.355078] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
[269788.355080]  sdd: sdd1 sdd2
[269788.357606] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
[269788.357646] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[269788.358982] sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sde
[269788.359018] sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[269791.298817] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[269791.490529] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

It thinks it's a CD-ROM??  perhaps the empty microSD slot is confusing
the system??  My manual vfat mount works on sd1 in this case.

Cheers,
-- 
Matthew Clarke