I posted earlier about this but never got a reply. I have Mandrake 10.1 Official the download version. I am attempting to mount my Apple formatted iPod, so from what I can gather from what I've read hear that makes it a hfs+ formatted iPod.

I've read that it's supposidly possible to mount this hfs+ iPod and use it with gtkpod. I've gone in and ran man mount and found that it only lists hfs as a supported fs and not hfsplus. I'm wondering what I need to do to add this support to the kernal.

I'm not sure if it matters but I have sync the iPod with an eMac and "updated the firmware"

I have tried:

mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda /mnt/iPod
mount -t hfs /dev/sda /mnt/iPod
and a few others none of them have worked and returned errors
such as:
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
or too many mounted file systems

Any suggestions as to where to go from here???

my ipod is hfs+ and mounts with a command similar to your first one. but 3 things:

1 for apple formated ipods mount /dev/sda3

sda1 is nothing but sometimes the first block gives errors so this is here.

sda2 is the ipod firmware

sda3 is your music.

2 you kernel must support hfsplus filesystem this may be a module or may not be supported at all depending how your kernel was configured.

3 your kernel must not support efi partitions if it does your ipod will lockup and give you io errors

because of 2 and 3 you might have to recompile your kernel but I could help you do this if you need to.

yeah if you could give me some help with recompiling the kernal that'd be awesome. If you could make it as "dumbed down" as possible that would also be appriciated I'm really new to linux so I don't want to screw any thing up.

Thanks for the offer.

ok first see if you have too do you get an error with:

mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/iPod

if so what error message do you get?
(this assumes your ipod is sda usualy the case when you have no scsi or sata disks you can check what yours is bu plugging it into you computer, wait a moment then run:

dmesg

the end should talk about the ipod and what device it is.

if you do need to recompile you need to install the kernel sources package if it's on you system it'll be in:

/usr/src/linux

or linked to it

I followed your steps and ran dmesg ant this is what t gives me:

scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sda: Spinning up disk....ready
SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0:end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 117210232
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 14651279
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 117210232
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 14651279
[mac] p1 p2 p3
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 7

what happened when you ran

mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/iPod

/linux is not there under usr/src is there any oth place I can get that package?

when I run:
mount t- hfsplus dev/sda mnt/iPod/

I get:
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
or too many mounted file systems

it looks like your kernel supports both hfspluss and efi partitions:

/dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0:end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 117210232
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 14651279
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 117210232
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 14651279

efi partition tables are at the end of the disk and the ipod reports that it is bigger than it is so you get the end request error then it locks up and you get a bunch of io errors

it looks like you need to recompile you need the kernel sources in my opinion you should get the kernel sources for your distro it should be a package

is that likely to be on the install CD's that I have? I do remeber that during the install process there were some option to install differnt packages that I chose not to just to save space should I go back and just install evrything???

it should be on one of those cds i'd be suprised if it wasn't. if its not there try mandrakes web site. you don't have to install everthing but if you have the space.

If I were to plug the iPod into a windows based machine and formate it to fat32 would I then be able to mount it in to mandrake with no issues? Assuming that I have support for that fs [/b]or[b/] would I still need to get ride of efi support? And if I could mount it in to mandrake would I also be able to edit the contents of the iPod with gtkpod?

no the efi issue has nothing to do with the file system its a bug in the ipod itself. also I've used both fat32 and hfs+ ipods and find the hfs+ more reliable (the ipod was designed to use hfs+ and the only reason it uses fat32 is 'cause windows won't support hfs+ and they are a large market segment) I can help you with your kernel and setting up you fstab my ipod works with gtkpod and as a disk.

that would be great what do I need to do to "fix" the kernal? you mentioned that I would need the kernel sources. I have no idea were to get those. Also I'm not entirely sure which kernal I have. I downloaded the Mandrake 10.1 official iso's from mandrakelinux.com. Is there a command I can run or somewhere I can look to see what version of mandrake I have and what kernal its built on??

uname -r

will tell you what kernel you have. the sources should be available through your package manager but if not you can get the newes vanilla kernal sources from www.kernel.org