iPod

[Alf Eaton]

On Nov 10, 2004, at 19:56, John wrote:

> Alf Eaton wrote:
>> On Nov 10, 2004, at 01:45, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Your only chance at this moment is change the ownership of the whole
>>> iPod to your Linux user but that change will prevent that you use 
>>> your
>>> iPod with MacOSX.
>>>
>> I seem to be able to access it, for now, if I use 'sudo chmod 777' on 
>> /mnt/ipod, while it's mounted. The trouble is that half the time (at 
>> least) it doesn't even mount at all - there's just a '/dev/sdb3 is 
>> not a block device' error. I'm worried that connecting and 
>> disconnecting the iPod repeatedly is going to damage it, as even when 
>> it's mounted and unmounted properly, the 'do not disconnect' message 
>> never disappears from the screen.
>> alf.
>
>
> I know this sounds daft, but (with USB drives & cameras) with some 
> chipsets it seems necessary to eject and some not, and maybe (from an 
> experiences yesterday) sometimes with some.
>
> Si wyen you umount, also
> eject /dev/sdb
>
> and report back what happens.


So here's what happens at the moment:
It's a click-wheel iPod and Ubuntu hoary.

unplug all the USB devices and delete /mnt/ipod - all the /dev/sdb 
directories are gone too.

create /mnt/ipod and chown it to my user

plug in the ipod, and it's automatically mounted (even though i have 
noauto in /etc/fstab)
here's the whole fstab line: /dev/sdb3 /mnt/ipod hfsplus 
rw,user,noauto,noatime 0 0

mount /mnt/ipod - the ipod appears, and i can use gtkpod to write to it 
ok.

close gtkpod and umount /mnt/ipod - the drive disappears from the 
desktop, but the 'do not disconnect' message is still there.
sudo eject /dev/sdb (has to be sudo, otherwise nothing happens) - the 
'do not disconnect' message disappears :-)
/dev/sdb directories have disappeared, so I have to disconnect and 
reconnect the ipod to be able to mount it again, which I guess is 
normal. After a couple of times though, it doesn't create /dev/sdb3 
anymore and can't be mounted. Creating /dev/sdb3 manually, then trying 
to mount /mnt/ipod produces the '/dev/sdb3 is not a block device' 
error.

This seems to correspond with the bug reports, but I thought it might 
be useful for anyone else stuck with this problem.
Also, I was unable to mount the ipod as read-write for a while, as it 
had been unmounted badly. Running hpmount /dev/sdb3 and then hpumount 
fixed that, luckily.

alf.