I'm testing out iPod support with Knoppix in anticipation of creating a bootable CD that will automate my backup process, putting an image of my hard drive on my iPod. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get Knoppix 3.9 to mount my iPod.

I'm running a Dell XPS Gen 5 (audible cringe) with one SATA HDD. Knoppix sees this drive fine. When I plug in the iPod's USB cable, hotplug should detect the device and mount it as a SCSI HDD. hotplug does indeed detect the presence of the High-Speed Device (as verified through the output of dmesg), but the iPod is never mounted.

Having never dealt with USB Mass Storage devices under Linux before, and Google's results being filled with results about changing kernel parameters (I don't have that option, I'm using Windows) and disheartening success stories about iPods on Knoppix, I've tried everything I could think of (incuding trying to mount every single /dev/uba, /dev/uvb, and /dev/sda device as vfat).

Any ideas?

Dell XPS Gen 5 (audible cringe)

*Pats his lovely Dell Optiplex GX260 2GHz P4 and 768MB RAM :-) It may now be super fast and have SATA but its a Dell and its silent and small!

It would help to know which /dev is your sata drive, but I'll assume you are certain it is not /dev/sda. Because if you are not certain, the ipod might be /dev/sdb. There should be 2 partitions on a vfat formatted ipod. Have you tried mounting /dev/sda2 (or /dev/sdb2)? Hope that helps.

My mistake, /dev/sda is indeed my SATA HDD. I meant to say /dev/sdb. That's what posting at 3:30 in the morning gets you. :P

The iPod works fine under Slax (dmesg reveals that it's detecting the presence of the device, and it's creating the appropriate mount point in /mnt, even though I actually have to go the final yard and type "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2_removable" myself), so I guess that's the easiest solution.