On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:35:32AM +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > You can format you himd walkman as followed: > > > > 1) use cdrecord -scanbus to find your walkman > > The entry should look like this: > > scsibus 6: > > 6,0,0 600> 'SONY ' 'Hi-MD WALKMAN' ' '1000' Removable Disk Ok, that doesn't work both on MacOS: minimac2:~ zedv$ cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a78 (i386-apple-macosx10.3.0) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 J�g Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-R UJ-846 ' 'FM3J' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * minimac2:~ zedv$ and Linux: glaubitz@z6:~> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a78 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 J�g Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. scsibus1000: 1000,0,0 100000) '_NEC ' 'DVD_RW ND-3540A ' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM 1000,1,0 100001) * 1000,2,0 100002) * 1000,3,0 100003) * 1000,4,0 100004) * 1000,5,0 100005) * 1000,6,0 100006) * 1000,7,0 100007) * glaubitz@z6:~> lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:3012 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 006: ID 054c:0287 Sony Corp. Hi-MD WALKMAN Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub glaubitz@z6:~> Seems like cdrecord is not scanning all busses available. I remember that I once called cdrecord on my Linux computer (z6) and it listed even the SATA harddrives attached, so I have to be missing something. Will do further tests. Adrian