H120 problem - mounts as read-only device

[jigantor]

Last year I put Rockbox on my iRiver H120. Worked beautifully until last week, when for some reason it decided that it was only going to mount as a read-only device (meaning I can't delete or add any music on it). Needless to say, it's incredibly frustrating. I can view and copy files from it, but nothing more - just like a CD. I'm running Ubuntu Dapper, if that's at all relevant.

I think I've had a pretty good look around these forums, on ubuntuforums.org and Google without success - though it's entirely possible that in my incompetence I've missed something. If anyone had any ideas on how to fix this - or if there's something incredibly obvious I've missed like a 'read-only mode' option - I'd love to hear it!

Possibly relevant: It happened after I had attempted to delete a large proportion of the music on there - I thought I had succeeded, but when I try to play much of the Music it shows up (in Supported File view), but doesn't play - just skips past all the songs that apparently have been deleted.

My deepest apologies if this is a stupid question.

[bluebrother]

Possibly relevant: It happened after I had attempted to delete a large proportion of the music on there - I thought I had succeeded, but when I try to play much of the Music it shows up (in Supported File view), but doesn't play - just skips past all the songs that apparently have been deleted.

In that case I recommend running chkdsk /f from a windows machine -- I did some work with the FAT filesystem a while ago (not Rockbox related, but that doesn't matter) and found Windows' chkdsk being able to find and repair much more problems than fsck.vfat on linux. Files not deleted correctly sounds pretty much like a broken filesystem to me.

[jigantor]

Well, that partially fixed it (the non-existent directories no longer show up when browsing the player) but now Ubuntu can't access the player at all. If you try to open it, nautilus crashes. You can browse in the terminal, but as soon as you try to alter anything the terminal just sits there and does nothing (while the HDD light on the player flashes incessantly).

chkdsk finds no problems on the disk, and it mounts fine in Windows. Unfortunately, that's not where my music is

Any tips on where to from here?

[bluebrother]

chkdsk finds no problems on the disk, and it mounts fine in Windows. Unfortunately, that's not where my music is

How about accessing it from windows? Does it only show up or can you access the data / copy files to the player using windows?