Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:35:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iPod mini + ASUS P3B-F motherboard + FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20050531163450.J36998@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <429B87D9.4000206@raad.tartu.ee> References: <429B87D9.4000206@raad.tartu.ee>
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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. Read over the info at the ipod linux site. That should clear things up for you. :) Tony On Tue, 31 May 2005, Toomas Aas wrote: > Is anyone successfully using this mix of old and new technology? I'm trying > to, but I'm not succeeding. > > The on-board USB ports on this machine are USB1.1, which, while not > "officially" supported by Apple, should work with iPod according to many > reports on the Net. I do understand that it would be very slow, though. > > The very first time I took the iPod out of the package and connected it to my > PC, it was recognized successfully: > > May 30 20:08:32 premium kernel: umass0: Apple iPod mini, rev 2.00/0.01, addr > 2 > May 30 20:12:52 premium kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > May 30 20:12:52 premium kernel: da0: <Apple iPod 1.62> Removable Direct > Access SCSI-0 device > > Note, however, that there's a 4 minute time gap between umass0 and da0 lines. > > Since my machine doesn't have any support for reading the HFS (or is it > HFS+?) file system which is what the iPod has out of the box, I couldn't > however mount any slices from da0. I tried disconnecting and re-connecting > the iPod a few times and now the umass0 line appears but the da0 line doesn't > appear at all, even after waiting for 40 minutes. > > I went to a Windows PC with USB2 ports and connected the iPod to that. It was > recognized immediately and re-formatted as FAT32. Back to my FreeBSD PC and > there's no change - when plugging in the iPod, the umass0 line appears in > dmesg, but the da0 line doesn't. > > What would be the best course of action to get the iPod talking to my FreeBSD > box? > - install an add-on USB 2.0 card ? > - update the PC-s BIOS to latest version (there is a newer version than > the one I'm running now)? > - update to latest -STABLE (current checkout is from May 10)? > - wipe FreeBSD and install Windows? (just kidding!!!) > - something else? > > --- > ... Windows NT - the world's only 80 MB solitaire game! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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