From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 21:49:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4E816A41C for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 21:49:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from mail.neti.ee (smtp-out-3.neti.ee [194.126.101.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A17C43D49 for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 21:49:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from [84.50.64.62] (84-50-64-62-dsl.trt.estpak.ee [84.50.64.62]) by Relayhost1.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01C96BD1; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:49:19 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <429CDBDE.1040509@raad.tartu.ee> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:49:18 +0300 From: Toomas Aas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050408) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Shadwick References: <429B87D9.4000206@raad.tartu.ee> <20050531163450.J36998@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050531163450.J36998@mail.goinet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iPod mini + ASUS P3B-F motherboard + FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:49:25 -0000 Tony Shadwick wrote: > Be aware that the iPod has some freaky partitioning going on. Even if > you format the 'drive' as fat32, there's still a partition there you're > not seeing. Yep, I understand that. The 'drive' has already been formatted to fat32. That happened when I installed the iPod software to a Windows PC and connected iPod to it. Meanwhile, back at my FreeBSD machine, I booted up with a Knoppix 3.7 CD and could mount the iPod successfully as /dev/sda2 and see some directories on it (/Calendar, /Notes and whatnot). I'm now upgrading my FreeBSD to today's 5-STABLE, and if that won't help I'll put in an add-on PCI card with USB2 ports. Upgrading the BIOS of my ASUS P3B-F motherboard to latest non-beta version (1006) didn't seem to have any effect on this issue. > Read over the info at the ipod linux site. That should clear things up > for you. :) I've been reading all those sites for past couple of days. It just seems that things that work for other people for some reason don't work for me :) --- ... Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.