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Apple iPod mini
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2 19151 04-17-2005
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100% of reviewers $249.50 7.5



Description: Smaller (mini) version of the famous iPod. comes in your choice of lovely pastel colors.

capacity: 4GB

supported audio: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF and WAV

Keywords: Apple iPod mini MP3 player
Connection Type: USB, Firewire


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Old 03-24-2004, 04:33 PM   #1
superbondbond
 
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 668

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $249.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22
Distribution: Slacware 9.1



When I first connected the iPod to my Linux box, it found three partitions (sda1-3) but none of them had any identifiable filesystem.

I connected the iPod to a WindowsXP PC and during the iTunes installation, there was some sort of iPod initialization (I can only assume that the unit was formatted in some way). After that, upon connecting to my Linux box, it finds only two partitions (sda1, sda2). the second partitions is mounted (vfat) as a USB mass storage device. I am now able to use GtkPod for transfering music, creating playlist, etc. etc.......

It works Great!
 
Old 04-17-2005, 06:30 AM   #2
towel401
 
Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Mepis, mdk10
Posts: 39

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $250.00 | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10
Distribution: Mepis


Auto-mounts as /mnt/ipod. There are 2 partitions, sda1 and sda2 usually. I presume one is for updating the firmware. GtkPod works okay, but its not perfect. But a lot better than that iTunes tripe. I have only got this working on USB1.1 but that might have something to do with me not having my Firewire card installed
 




  



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