PRS-700 not recognized (Win2K)

[Gammaquant]

Hi there,

I just got my PRS-700 today. Unfortunately calibre 0.5.14 doesn't recognize it.

Maybe important: This is a Windows 2000 box (which I know calibre doesn't officially support; I was just hoping it might work anyway).

What happens when I plug in the reader:
A USB mass storage device is added to the system, providing 3 drives. I can browse the first one with Explorer - that seems to be the PRS's internal memory; the others are obviously the two card slots (no cards in there for now).

When starting calibre-debug -d i get the following output:

D:\Program Files\calibre>calibre-debug.exe -d
USB devices on system: [u'usb\\hub_vid_05e3&pid_0608&rev_0702', u'usb\\hub_vid_0
5e3&pid_0608&rev_0702', u'usb\\root_hub', u'usb\\root_hub', u'usb\\root_hub', u'
usb\\root_hub', u'usb\\root_hub', u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid24cd&rev0002', u'
usb\\root_hub20&vid1033&pid00e0&rev0004', u'usb\\vid_051d&pid_0002&rev_0106', u'
usb\\vid_054c&pid_031e&rev_031:']
Drives detected:
        (ID, Partitions, Drive letter)
        ('IDE\\DISKMAXTOR_6B300R0__________________________BAH41B10\\36424130394
44831202020202020202020202020', 'No mount points found')
        ('IDE\\DISKMAXTOR_6Y160P0__________________________YAR41BW0\\345944374E3
5454B202020202020202020202020', 1, u'E:\\')
        ('SCSI\\DISK&VEN_3WARE&PROD_7500-4:0_DRV_0&REV__1.0\\5&8EF4966&0&000', 2
, u'C:\\')
        ('USBSTOR\\DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS-700/UC&REV_1.00\\0800461000A3DFEF&0',
'No mount points found')
        ('USBSTOR\\DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS-700/UC:MS&REV_1.00\\0800461000A3DFEF&1
', 'No mount points found')
        ('USBSTOR\\DISK&VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS-700/UC:SD&REV_1.00\\0800461000A3DFEF&2
', 'No mount points found')
Looking for PRS500
Looking for PRS505
Looking for PRS700
Device Connected: <class 'calibre.devices.prs700.driver.PRS700'>
Trying to open device...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "debug.py", line 179, in <module>
  File "debug.py", line 161, in main
  File "debug.py", line 124, in debug_device_driver
  File "calibre\devices\prs505\driver.pyo", line 243, in open
  File "calibre\devices\prs505\driver.pyo", line 168, in open_windows
calibre.devices.errors.DeviceError: Unable to detect the PRS700 disk drive. Try
rebooting.

What surprises me a bit is the 'No mount points found' on the 3 drives - at the same time they're visible in Explorer as drives F:, G: and I:.

Any ideas what I could try next? Or will it simply not work on Win2K?

Thanks in advance!

[kovidgoyal]

calibre uses something called WMI to query the OS for mountpoints. Presumably that doesn't work in Win2k, hence the error