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Old 04-18-2005, 12:58 AM   #1
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iPod mini and Suse 9.3


Hi, I have just switched over to Suse 9.3 from Mandrake (and Ubuntu) and I can't get my Ipod mini to work. After installation it saw my ipod after I connected it to a USB2 plug but I couldn't see anything in it with Konquerer. I read somewhere that it needs to be formatted in windows with the Apple utility so I did that and then rebooted into Suse and tried again. Now Suse won't even mount or show an icon in My Computer for my ipod. Any help would be appreciated as I would hate to have to log out of Suse and back into windows just to update the ipod.
 
Old 04-18-2005, 02:52 AM   #2
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Have a look at the output of dmesg just after you plugged in the iPOD (wait a few seconds, then type 'dmesg'). This will help us to understand what's wrong.

Actually it shouldn't have been necessary to re-format the iPOD for Linux. Linux should be able to deal with HFS+, the MAC filesystem.
 
Old 04-18-2005, 09:15 AM   #3
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What part of this output message should I post...it's huge lol
 
Old 04-18-2005, 11:50 AM   #4
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The last few lines that deal with USB. Something like that (no iPOD, but the output looks similar):
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usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: TwinMOS   Model: Mobile Disk       Rev: 1.11
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 258048 512-byte hdwr sectors (132 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 258048 512-byte hdwr sectors (132 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
 
Old 04-18-2005, 08:34 PM   #5
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Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdb: 7999488 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 7999488 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
 
Old 04-19-2005, 02:25 AM   #6
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Seems your iPOD is properly recognised. Have you tried to mount sdb2?
 
Old 04-19-2005, 09:01 PM   #7
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Turns out my Ipod's formatting structure got hosed. Took a few hard resets for it to be detected even in Windows. Works perfect with GTKPod now.

Thanks for your help!
 
  


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