mike-h30 wrote on Tuesday, April 29, 2008:
What brand/model digital recorder are others using that work with Linux? We recently converted all of our desktops to Linux (OpenSuse 10.3) and I now have discovered that my USB digital recorder (Olympus VN - 4100PC) is not showing up as a USB drive on my Linux desktop. I thought that "a USB device is a USB device" not matter what. Please advise - ( I dread having to revert back to Windows for use of a digital recorder ).
Regards,
-Mike
oppiet30 wrote on Tuesday, April 29, 2008:
You can open a terminal and type:
dmesg and see if it actually is mounting it.
Or you can type mount and it should show you all the mounts.
Like for my old iRiver mp3 player, I had to put it in a certai mode, before it would mount the drive. 
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2007-05/msg02289.html
Shows that it does work.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Olympus+VN+-+4100PC+linux
Is the search term I used to find that link.
mike-h30 wrote on Tuesday, April 29, 2008:
I found the this answer online regarding Olympus voice recorders:
"VN recorders require software to work, all other Olympus recorders, WS and DS series do not require software, they are usb mass storage devices."
-Mike
mike-h30 wrote on Tuesday, April 29, 2008:
Thanks for the tip oppiet30!! I will try that as well.
-Mike
bdwderm wrote on Wednesday, April 30, 2008:
I use the olympus ws-110; works like a charm (PC Linux OS).
brent
mike-h30 wrote on Thursday, May 01, 2008:
Thanks Brent! I picked up a ws-110 at Best Buy today. You are right - it “works like a charm!” It’s compact, easy to use, has great sound quality, and is readable on my Linux desktops.
-Mike