2nd Gen Mac iPod Fails to Mount

Mr.X · 12-26-2006, 08:12 PM

I recently obtained an iPod nano, and formatted it with a mac hfs+ file system. However, I cannot get Slackware 11 (with kernel 2.4.33.3) to mount it as a hfs+ filesystem. Mount complains that it cannot mount it as that filesystem, because it the superblock is bad.

dmesg outputs:

Code:

usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod              Rev: 1.62
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 3964928 2048-byte hdwr sectors (8120 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
 sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers

Attempting to call mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda2 (or sda, sda1, or sda3) /mnt/ipod results in "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda(X), missing codepage or other error..."

Is there any way to get the iPod to be recognized other than to change the iPod's file system to vfat?

macemoneta · 12-27-2006, 10:58 AM

For hfsplus (on FC6), I always have to specify the device, not the partition:

mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda /mnt/ipod

Hfsplus expects a certain partition layout apparently, so you need to pass the device. It works for me, but I'm using a 2.6.18 based kernel.