[BOLD] I have since resolved this issue. It turns out that when I had connected the
iPod to a Win32 machine at work, the installation updated the
iPod filesystem from HFS++ to FAT32. Switching my mountpoint in /etc/fstab from HFS++ to VFAT did the trick. I am now a happy member of the iPod/Linux club...! [/bold]
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Originally posted by fthomson
*Reposted from another thread:
My wife (bless her!) bought me an iPod 20gb (4thG) for xmas. I have a dual boot (Suse9.2-XP) so I installed everything on the windows side. I then looked at trying to get it mounted in linux but didn't have much success and I was too lazy to re-compile the kernal as was suggested.
Playing around, I decided from the windows side, to upgrade the firmware on the iPod and did so. Then I rebooted into linux and lo and behold, there was my iPod. Mounted and available under MY COMPUTER. I fired up gtkPod and I had access to my music.
So it would seem that with the firmware update comes linux support with USB.
-Fred
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Interesting. My experience is that the firmware upgrade scotched my ability to use the
iPod (with USB, haven't tried Firewire yet).
I enabled HFSPLUS and Mac Partition in my kernel (as well as firewire, to be installed shortly), recompiled, and then left for work. While there I loaded iTunes on the Win32 system I have there and attached my new
iPod 4gb. The installation put a firmware upgrade onto the
iPod which I didn't think could hurt anything. Now when I get back to my Linux workstation, suddenly I only have two partitions instead of the original three. Parted is now also no longer able to read the partition label.
Jan 17 10:33:36 kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 6
Jan 17 10:33:37 kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 17 10:33:37 kernel: Vendor: Apple Model:
iPod Rev: 1.62
Jan 17 10:33:37 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 17 10:33:38 kernel: sdf: Spinning up disk....ready
Jan 17 10:33:38 kernel: SCSI device sdf: 7999488 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB)
Jan 17 10:33:38 kernel: sdf: assuming Write Enabled
Jan 17 10:33:38 kernel: sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 17 10:33:38 kernel: sdf: sdf1 sdf2
Jan 17 10:33:38 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdf at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jan 17 10:33:38 kernel: Attached scsi generic sg4 at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Jan 17 10:33:38 kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 6
Jan 17 10:33:58 kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Jan 17 10:34:01 kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Jan 17 10:34:26 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 7999480
Jan 17 10:34:30 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 1
Jan 17 10:34:30 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 0
# parted /dev/sdf
GNU Parted 1.6.11 with HFS shrink patch 12.5
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
License for more details.
Using /dev/sdf
Error: Unable to open /dev/sdf - unrecognised disk label.
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sdf is 3906/64/32. Therefore, cylinder 1024
ends at 1023.999M.
(parted)
I'm using Debian (Sarge) with a 2.6.8 kernel.
Any comments/suggestions/assistance is appreciated.
[ I have since resolved this issue. It turns out that when I connected the iPod to a Win32 PC, the updated iPod software switched the filesystem on the iPod from HFS++ to FAT32. Switching my mountpoint in /etc/fstab to vfat did the trick and I'm now a happy member of the iPod/Linux club...!] I have since resolved this issue. It turns out that when I had connected the iPod to a Win32 machine at work, the installation updated the iPod filesystem from HFS++ to FAT32. Switching my mountpoint in /etc/fstab from HFS++ to VFAT did the trick. I am now a happy member of the iPod/Linux club...!