HDD install - IPOD mini

**evan** · 06-15-2005, 06:56 AM

Hi,

Does anyone have an IPOD mini working with the HDD install? I'm having trouble accessing mine. Dmesg shows that it's detecting a USB device, but it doesn't seem to assign it to UBA1 or anything.

Thanks.

**fingers99** · 06-15-2005, 08:35 PM

No experience of iPod, but try (as root):

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt

cd to /mnt and see if you can see anything.

**evan** · 06-16-2005, 05:13 PM

I can try later today, but shouldn't it be UBA-something? I'm connecting with USB. I thought I read somewhere that Knoppix only uses this UBA thing for USB, and not the SDA thing anymore.

**fingers99** · 06-17-2005, 12:46 AM

Pretty sure it should be sda1 (it could be sda).

Anyway, try it. Then you'll need something like:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/iPod vfat rw,noauto,sync 0 0

in your /etc/fstab

(of course, you'll have to do -- as root --

cd /mnt
mkdir iPod

)

Let us know how you get on: the sync entry is important for mass storage devices.

**evan** · 06-18-2005, 06:03 PM

No luck! I get "not a valid block device." Any other suggestions?

Thanks for the help.

BTW, I have kernel 2.6.11.

**fingers99** · 06-19-2005, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by evan

No luck! I get "not a valid block device." Any other suggestions?

Is the iPod powered up and on? I ask because this was exactly the error message I used to get when my Neuros wasn't running: in effect, you're trying to mount a dead device which the OS sees as no device whatsoever.

Other than that, I'm stumped.

**evan** · 06-20-2005, 06:21 AM

Yeah, it's giving me the "don't disconnect" message.

**fingers99** · 06-20-2005, 07:48 PM

Ah, I've just discovered that some iPods are formatted vfat (as are all Neuroses, iRivers and so on) while others are formatted hfss (wierd harold Mac format). Here for details.

So -- given you have support for the strange Mac filing system -- then

mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt

should do it

if not, try

mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/

But the url above looks very useful.