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helm:
i fancy for a sansa c250 especially because of the feature to use micro-sd-cards for extra memory. two things i would like to know before buying that player:

1. i know that without using the sandisk software (which will obviously not run on  my mac) i will have no access to the sd-card in the player. will rockbox solve this problem? will i be able then to move files to the player and/or the card via drag&drop? or will i need a card reader for that? this is crucial for me, because the micro-sd-memory expansion is the essential feature, why i would like to buy this specific player.

if rockbox helps me out of that (otherwise i suppose i will have to look for an external usb-card-reader):

2. is there a v1/v2-firmware problem likely to the e200-series? if yes, is there a possibility to downgrade the firmware without need of any extra software tool for which i would need a pc, since i don't expect that i will find any osx-versions of these tools?

thanks for your help!

MarcGuay:
- If you set the Sansa USB mode to MSC you should be able to access the SD card as you would any drive. (Regular microSD cards only, microSDHC cards would require a seperate reader.)

- Rockbox for this model currently has no USB support of its own, so you have to go through the Sansa firmware to tranfer files.

- People have reported strange behavior with the e200 and macintosh systems.  Search the forums a bit before you buy.  *Edit*:  Poked around a bit on the Sandisk forums and it looks like at least a few people are using it on their macs with no problems.  In MSC mode, of course.

- There is a v2 model of the c200.  If you buy a v2 model, there is no "fix" for it to make Rockbox work with it.  The firmware downgrade you're referring to is related to something else.

- The only way to guarantee that you're buying a v1 model is to check the version number of the firmware.

helm:
thanks.

found also some helpful informations here:

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/index.php

greetings
helm

helm:
rockbox is now installed on my sansa c250. the mac installer works fine, no problems.

what i needed was the tool "CleanUp smb mess", which is freeware and available here, including informations why you need this tool:

http://www.faqintosh.com/risorse/en/sys/cleansmb/

works great, simply pull the player over the droplet, and all ".-" files, which appear as "unknown artist/album/..."-files on the player, are removed.

when the player is connected to the computer, it is operated by the original firmware, so rockbox doesn't influence that, you still can manage the files on the player using i-tunes or the macintosh finder.

so - good news for all mac-users: no problem to install rockbox under os-x on your player. the great functionality of rockbox is also availabloe for all macintosh users.

sduck:
Just got a v1 e280 on ebay. Using a macbook running leopard here. I tried rbutilqt.app with mixed success - it runs fine, recognizes the player and everything, seems to be working, gives finished messages when I try to install stuff, but the only thing it seems to have done right is patch the boot loader. It also created the .rockbox folder, but then didn't load anything into it for some reason. I don't know if it's a leopard related problem or not, but that'd be my first guess. Anyway, patching the bootloader is the only hard part, and doing the rest manually was no problem.

I also have winXP running in vmware fusion, and the win version of rbutilqt seems to work fine in it - I was able to use it to load all kinds of extra themes.

Bottom line - the thing works great with this mac, no problems that aren't unsurmountable.

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