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MovieBird · 11-09-2009, 11:20 AM

When I turned my PRS-600 on this morning, it had a warning of something similar to "internal formatting issue", and gave me a single OK button to click. So I clicked it. And it reformatted my device.

This, of course, wiped all the books I had on there. Good thing I had a copy on the computer. But, when I try to copy them back over, I get an "input/output error". I should add I'm running Ubuntu, so I just use drag & drop to the USB folder.

Sony support was useless, as they couldn't come up with anything that didn't rely on their eBook Library and Windows. I tried to download the firmware (it came in an .exe, why the f can't they just zip this stuff instead of doing self-extracting exe's?), changed the extension to zip, and extracted it. Even though it implants an Linux kernel on the reader, it seems to rely on Windows to update itself.

So, I turn to you, oh wise and knowledgeable forum. Does anyone have a method to reflash a PRS-600 via Linux? Alternatively, what are the exact names of the folders in the media folder? Maybe I can just recreate those and get back to reading...

11-09-2009, 11:20 AM	#1
MovieBird TuxSlash Posts: 392 Karma: 2436547 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: GlowNook	Corruption When I turned my PRS-600 on this morning, it had a warning of something similar to "internal formatting issue", and gave me a single OK button to click. So I clicked it. And it reformatted my device. This, of course, wiped all the books I had on there. Good thing I had a copy on the computer. But, when I try to copy them back over, I get an "input/output error". I should add I'm running Ubuntu, so I just use drag & drop to the USB folder. Sony support was useless, as they couldn't come up with anything that didn't rely on their eBook Library and Windows. I tried to download the firmware (it came in an .exe, why the f can't they just zip this stuff instead of doing self-extracting exe's?), changed the extension to zip, and extracted it. Even though it implants an Linux kernel on the reader, it seems to rely on Windows to update itself. So, I turn to you, oh wise and knowledgeable forum. Does anyone have a method to reflash a PRS-600 via Linux? Alternatively, what are the exact names of the folders in the media folder? Maybe I can just recreate those and get back to reading...