iPod

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Alf Eaton Wrote: 
> 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.
> 
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I have my ipod working, but this was after I upgraded to hoary and I'm
using firewire. No problems. Oh and it's windows formatted.


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