Mark-2 via Disk-2

I too am preparing to part from Emma soon , ahead of the arrival of Mark. I wish to save all of Emma's music and playlists now, so I can transfer them to Mark when he arrives. My Emma has 2 drives; the original 6GB one (that will stay with Emma) and an extra 18GB Toshiba added a month ago (and that I'll keep for use in Mark).

Anyone out here who can help with instructions?
Can it be done?
If you want, you can e-mail me at: [email protected]

Thanks

Henno
# 00120

I'll let someone else deal with the Linux specifics, but I would like to mention that we plan to ship an empeg transfer utility with the Mark 2 player. This will move music from a Mark 1 player to a new (empty) Mark 2, easing the transition for those that choose to upgrade.

Of course it's no use to anyone that sells their Mark 1 before receiving their Mark 2!

Rob

I too am preparing to part from Emma soon, ahead of the arrival of Mark.

I think it's cute that you've already named your new player. But I have one question: How do you know it's going to be a boy?

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144

How do you know it's going to be a boy?

I don't know yet. As a good parent, I don't care too much yet.
Emma confirmed her femininity by staying only a short while, before moving on
Don't know about the Mark-2 yet. If the design works out well, I may call her Emanuelle II (remember Sylvia Kristel?)


Henno
# 00120

Note the name Esmaralda is reserved for my empeg


Mark
wait for mk III with a USB Host/slave
(USB->Ethernet)(USB->COM 1-8)(USB->You name it)

let someone else deal with the Linux specifics . . .

Rob (and others)

As explained earlier, I'd like to to save Emma's music and tag files before shipping her off, so I won't have to re-rip over 200 CD when I Mark2 arrives. I'll ship off Emma with only its original 6GB disk and would like to use the 18GB drive that I added last month (and that I'll keep for Mark2) to move the necessary files from Emma's 6GB disk to (the same sized one of) Mark2.

This is what I have in mind:

First the 18GB drive needs to be read/write:
mount -n -o remount,rw /drive1

The MP3 files and tags are said to be in the VAR and FIDS directories;
save them in similarly named directories on drive1:
mkdir /drive1/varold
cp -v /drive0/var /drive1/varold
mkdir /drive1/fidsold
cp -v /drive0/fids /drive1/fidsold

Make the disk read-only again:
mount -n -o remount,ro /drive1

Later, when Mark2 arrives:
Install the second drive, load developer image, etc., and copy the files back
mount -n -o remount,rw /drive0
cp -v /drive1/varold /drive0/var
cp -v /drive1/fidsold /drive0/fids
mount -n -o remount,ro /drive0

and, if it all works, remove the old files:
mount -n -o remount,rw /drive1
rmdir /drive1/varold
rmdir /drive1/fidsold
mount -n -o remount,ro /drive1


Would this work??
Linux is a total mystery to me, thus any comments / advise appreciated
Thanks

Henno
# 00120

double check this, but I'm fairly certain that you can just copy the files directly from the /drive0/fids to the /drive1/fids, and not have any problems. When you get the new drive, you wouldn't need to copy the files back - the empeg will just see them in the second partition and use them.
-mark

...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

How is the database set up? Does it have directories within the other two directories? If so, you need the -R (which stands for recursive) switch with cp.

Do you have any details for us on this transfer utility? Will it be a direct empeg-to-empeg connection or will it be empeg-to-pc-to-empeg? What kind of transfer speed might we expect (say, to transfer 5 ~ 6 gigs worth)?



Scott (00342)

I haven't seen it yet - perhaps one of the developers can answer.

Rob