2005/11/9, Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've got an iPod that I'd like to use and for the life of me I can't figure > out how to mount the thing. > > I'm running Sarge and have the debian package for gtkpod installed, as well > as USB support compiled into my kernel (2.4.27). I've never used a USB > device under linux before, all of my devices has the appropriate interfaces > (parallel/ps2/etc) so I've not had the need. > > If I connect the iPod, its screen tells me not to remove it, but I cannot see > that it's mounted anywhere. From what I've been able to gather through > googling it should show up as a SCSI device but it does not. > > What am I missing here?
I have an ipod mini and I am able to mount it using the following: 1. connect the ipod and use the dmesg command to see if it was detected. You should see somthing like: usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... .... usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 usb-storage: device scan complete SCSI device sda: 7999488 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 7999488 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 2. Create a mount point for the ipod. # mkdir /media/ipod 3 Edit /etc/fstab and add: /dev/sda2 /media/ipod vfat user,noauto,rw 0 0 No you should be able to mount your ipod with: $ mount /media/ipod To get rid of the ipod's message that says to not disconnect the ipod, like root: # eject /dev/sda2 Note, if you have a windows ipod, it is /dev/sda2, for the mac ipod I think it is /dev/sda1. -- "Meine Hoffnung soll mich leiten Durch die Tage ohne Dich Und die Liebe soll mich tragen Wenn der Schmerz die Hoffnung bricht"