40 GB Ipod + Debian

raeanne · 12-28-2005, 01:46 PM

I bought the 40 GB ipod Video yesterday. I have tried countless websites and forum suggestions to get the thing working with Debian. I finally got dmesg to say somthing about my ipod with

# modprobe usb-storage
# rmmod usb-storage

the output looks like:

Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb.c: deregistering driver usb-storage
scsi : 0 hosts left.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1858
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
USB Mass Storage support registered.

I seem to be having a mounting problem. Several others on their posts/websites suggested hfsplus

#modprobe hfsplus

At this point I have no idea how to get my computer to commuicate with the device.

Any suggestions?

So lost, Raeanne

HappyTux · 12-28-2005, 01:54 PM

Try installing gtkpod or gtkpod-aac and see if you can see the device using one of them.

raeanne · 12-28-2005, 02:26 PM

I have installed gtkpod, I could not find gtk-aac using synapathic.

I am a little confused by the program. It seems to say I have 2.76 GB free, but I have a 30 GB ipod. It does not show any indication of the ipod.

I guess the other thing I am cinfused by (as I am not entirely Linux savy) is that I am unsure where to find which sda* to mount with. The documents I have read say sda3 or sda1. I can mount my Sony Digital camera using

# mount -t usbfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/camera

I have tried

#mount -v -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod

but it says:
mount: /dev/sda3 is not a valid block device

Thank you for your reply!

HappyTux · 12-28-2005, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raeanne

I have installed gtkpod, I could not find gtk-aac using synapathic.

I am a little confused by the program. It seems to say I have 2.76 GB free, but I have a 30 GB ipod. It does not show any indication of the ipod.

I guess the other thing I am cinfused by (as I am not entirely Linux savy) is that I am unsure where to find which sda* to mount with. The documents I have read say sda3 or sda1. I can mount my Sony Digital camera using

# mount -t usbfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/camera

I have tried

#mount -v -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod

but it says:
mount: /dev/sda3 is not a valid block device

Thank you for your reply!

I have zero experience with an iPod or gtkpod but from your post above it should be sda1 and depending on whether partitioning works the same on it as a linux/dos machine sda2 or sda5 for the second partition. To check use fdisk -l once you do the modprobe for the usb storage and it should show you the partitions and file system types on all devices like this.

Code:

HappyTux:/home/stephen/src/gtk-engines# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          62      497983+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2   *          63        1156     8787555   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1157        1855     5614717+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            1856       14593   102317985    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1856        7934    48829536   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            7935       14593    53488386   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          62      497983+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2   *          63        1035     7815622+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            1036        2008     7815622+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            2009       14593   101089012+  83  Linux