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kovidgoyal · 11-09-2007, 11:04 PM

Well that error means for some reason the routine that finds out which drive letter the sony reader is mounted on, is failing. It works for me, so in order to debug it, you're going to have to do a little work.

First, install python 2.5 from python.org
then install the following two packages
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
then
http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

Then open a terminal and start the python interpreter which should be something like
c:\Python25\python.exe

At the interpreter prompt type or paste the following commands

Code:

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI()
drives = c.Win32_DiskDrive()
ids = [d.PNPDeviceID for d in drives]
print ids

Post the output of the print command. Do this with the reader connected.

11-09-2007, 11:04 PM	#47
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,434 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Well that error means for some reason the routine that finds out which drive letter the sony reader is mounted on, is failing. It works for me, so in order to debug it, you're going to have to do a little work. First, install python 2.5 from python.org then install the following two packages https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ then http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html Then open a terminal and start the python interpreter which should be something like c:\Python25\python.exe At the interpreter prompt type or paste the following commands Code: import wmi c = wmi.WMI() drives = c.Win32_DiskDrive() ids = [d.PNPDeviceID for d in drives] print ids Post the output of the print command. Do this with the reader connected.