Rio Riot 20Gb HDD USB MP3 Player

Rio Riot 20Gb HDD USB MP3 Player

[Martyn Ranyard]

Hi all,

   This is my first posting to this list, and I am not subscribed (so 
please cc me in on any replies to this thread -thanks), however I do follow 
the kernel traffic weekly mail.

   I have recently acquired a Rio Riot 20Gb HDD USB MP3 Player, and I have 
had no luck finding a device driver so far, but I am willing to help with 
testing and possibly a bit of development (I am more accustomed to writing 
in Borland/FreePascal than c however).  Does anyone know of a driver 
project, or shall I start one off?  Is this better done in user-space?

   I apologise in advance if I have taken this to an inappropriate forum, 
or broken any of the guidelines for this list, however I did read section 3 
of the FAQ first.

Thanks in advance,


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Re: Rio Riot 20Gb HDD USB MP3 Player

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:13:28PM +0100, Martyn Ranyard wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>   This is my first posting to this list, and I am not subscribed (so 
> please cc me in on any replies to this thread -thanks), however I do follow 
> the kernel traffic weekly mail.
> 
>   I have recently acquired a Rio Riot 20Gb HDD USB MP3 Player, and I have 
> had no luck finding a device driver so far, but I am willing to help with 
> testing and possibly a bit of development (I am more accustomed to writing 
> in Borland/FreePascal than c however).  Does anyone know of a driver 
> project, or shall I start one off?  Is this better done in user-space?

Did you look at the list of supported Linux USB devices linked off of
www.linux-usb.org?  And the linux-usb-devel mailing list is probably the
better place for this kind of discussion.

If your device looks like a USB Mass storage device, then a kernel
driver modification might be needed.  Otherwise you are probably better
off using usbfs/libusb to talk to the device from userspace, which is
what the other USB Rio devices do.

Good luck,

greg k-h