Howdy,
Interesting little problem here -
I just got a ipod nano for xmas and was messing around with it a bit. I was able to put a bunch of stuff on it yesterday. I went home last night and decided to add more tracks to the player when I came across my problem.

Trying to unmount the device it just hangs. No error messages, nothing. Just sits. Even sending a reboot/shutdown command does nothing. Doesn't respond to a kill -9 either. Odd.

A little more background info - Gentoo 2005.1 - as updated as it can be. 2.6.14 or 16 - I don't remember. udev and hotplug are both installed. I'm syncing the ipod using gtkpod. it's a vfat filesystem

What's interesting is the amount of time it takes to write the information to the ipod. When I first got it - it took no more than a few seconds a song to write. Now it writes the first 30 or so songs like it used too, but it gets progressivly slower, up to taking 15-20 seconds/song. It's horrible.

So after waiting 10 minutes to sync the bloody thing I went to unmount it - and then it hangs again. I have no idea why - and everything I've seen online doesn't offer any answers.

I'll post dmesg info when I get back home - but until then, does anyone have ideas?

Thanks,
Jason Holmes

Is it able to unmount when you've just written one song?

on an old distro I used to use, unmounting pen drives would take quite a long time being that it didn't "finish up" any of the file commands until unmount.

actually yeah it is. but this seems kinda rediculous to be waiting this long. espicially since the first time i did anything the unmounting was really snappy.

-jason