UMS firmware or Linux solution for ifp-899?

[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

[dmcarter]

I found my own solution, so will post it here in case anyone is listening .

Go to http://www.iriver.com/support/down_list.asp and choose your model range under "Select a product", and "Firmware" under "Select a category". Don't type anything in the third box. Click "Go" (to the right of the third box). Click on the version of the firmware you want (they call UMS "MSC" for some reason). Then you should see a list of file names with different parts of the world (US, EU, JP etc) in brackets. Click on the one for your part of the world and it should download. Then format your player and upgrade firmware, as per Music Manager documentation. This installs nice UMS firmware which makes the player appear as a USB hard drive under both Linux and Windows (and no "File Error"s so far, after a couple of transfers).

David

[bug80]

Originally Posted by dmcarter

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.

I use ifpgui together with the IFP-899, works like a charm.

[eumolpus]

Hello. I want to upgrade but I heard is not possible if not windows PC --- I have no windows PC so if I try to uprade and it doesn't work, I will have a unusable player ... and ... the recording limit? is there a version in which I can record at (at least) 128 / 44.1 Khz ? I've read in some old threats but all links are dead.

Thanks....

pablo