HDD install - IPOD mini

[evan]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Thanks for the help.

BTW, I have kernel 2.6.11.

[fingers99]

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]

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

[fingers99]

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.

[evan]

Thanks. I will try that tonight and post the results.

[evan]

No luck. I got "not a valid block device."