This player runs easily enough with no software. Provided you’re running a somewhat recent kernel with USB support compiled in, the device should be recognized as soon as you plug it in.The first step is to find out where your system thinks it is. Right after plugging in the unit, open a terminal and type dmesg. The output should say something like this:
hub.c: new USB device 00:0b.2-5, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x1006/0x3002) is not claimed by any active driver. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: MK2004GAL Rev: JA02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 39063024 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB) sdb: sdb1
This tells you that the device lives at /dev/sdb1. Next step is to give it a mount point. Continued...