Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[MarSies]

Trying to stress MC by writing music to my Playbook. Unfortunately my post http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=86726.0 still applies without Bitdefender.

MC does not recognize my Playbook and the drive is perfectly listed and accesible via a file manager.


Marsies .....

[glynor]

Trying to stress MC by writing music to my Playbook. Unfortunately my post http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=86726.0 still applies without Bitdefender.

MC does not recognize my Playbook and the drive is perfectly listed and accesible via a file manager.

Marsies .....

Does it show up with a drive letter or as a device in windows explorer?

[glynor]

My Playbook is accesible with a drive letter!

[MarSies]

Hi, it's not only my Playbook, also my Blackberry Q10.

One of my Playbooks is named QBook. When the Playbook can be accessed via Windows File manager you can even see it in the MC file manager. Only MC does not see the device.

On the picture you can see what happens when I reconfigure it again. Just renames with a number.

Marsies ..

[glynor]

Reading your other post, it appears that this would be the expected behavior.

If the devices are in USB Mass Storage Mode, which they are if they get a real drive letter, then Windows doesn't distinguish between them if they have the same drive letter.  It is like, to Windows, that you resized the partition and removed files on another machine.

You can try plugging one or the other in and manually assigning a different drive letter to it:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-add-remove-drive-letter#1TC=windows-7

If you want more control, you can use USBDLM to assign a drive letter to each device specifically based on a variety of physical characteristics of the device (like serial numbers and whatnot):
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

You could also see if you can switch your device to MTP mode.  Generally, MTP mode is more fiddly than Mass Storage mode, and I don't generally recommend it.  But, it could solve this issue, perhaps.  I have no idea if the Playbook or any other Blackberry device can be switched.  Sorry.  Very little experience with Blackberry devices (and no real desire to change that).

But, if they show up in Windows with the same drive letter, then MC is going to treat them as the same drive.  Period.

[glynor]

Your screenshot there doesn't show drive letters, but I'm going with the assumption that what you said in the other thread is true, and that both are being assigned Z.

I should note.  This is NOT default Windows behavior.  By default, Windows would assign a "low" letter, and a separate one to each device (E, F, G, H, etc).  There is some other software on your machine that is forcing them to both use Z.  Probably whatever Blackberry junk was installed when you set it up.

[MarSies]

Hey Glynor, Blackberry rules  

I have looked up the MS link and the drives do not appear in disk management. I also tried that to see if I can have Windows assign the same drive letters always. Couldn't find it. Your USBDLM tool looks like a good option, I will try that.

And the drive letters are indeed assigned from Z down. What should it matter, Windows always assigns a drive letter perfectly. Why can't MC recognize them. You can see at the screenshot that it works. No idea if I can change to MTP.

This is a workaround that I can live with. But for me the fact remains that MC has trouble identifying a drive. And it renames if I can configure it again. That does not look like normal behaviour to me.

Marsies .....


After connecting my second Playbook for some stress tests it identifies my second Playbook as QMambo which is the name of my phone. This is terribly wrong!