[dmcarter]

I've just acquired an ifp-899 with the standard iriver firmware on it and would like to install UMS firmware instead, so I can access it as a USB device in Linux (Ubuntu). However all the download links I can find on the web, both at iriveramerica.com and elsewhere, for UMS firmware for this model actually point to the non-UMS version which I already have.

So can someone tell me where to get UMS firmware for the ifp-899? And does anyone know why iriver have apparently discontinued it? Maybe it never worked properly?

Alternatively, does anyone have experience of accessing this model from Linux? I used to have an older ifp and I ran an application called ifpgui, but one day a transfer seized up and the player now just shows the dreaded "FILE ERROR" screen and is effectively useless. So I will not be using ifpgui again, and am reluctant to try anything else without someone assuring me it will work with the ifp-899.

Thanks for any help

David