Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

From: Emma Jane Hogbin (emmajane_at_xtrinsic.com)
Date: 06/21/04

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    On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 04:44:58PM -0500, James Abella wrote:
    > When sbp2 can log in, use fdisk to get basic partition info of
    > /dev/sda. If there are only
    > sda1 and sda2, it's Win mode. If not, the easiest way to convert it
    > to Win mode is to install iTune on one Windows box.

    Ok, I'm back to the laptop seeing the iPod. I upgraded udev and re-wrote
    the rules. Then I made a new symbolic link. I also have leftover in
    /etc/fstab the following (I'm not sure if it makes a difference or not):
            /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod2 auto ro,user 0 0

    dmesg says:
    ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000a27000266158c]
    ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
    scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
    ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
    ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
      Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.50
        Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
             sda: Spinning up disk....ready
             SCSI device sda: 39063024 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
             sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
             sda: asking for cache data failed
             sda: assuming drive cache: write through
              sda: unknown partition table
              Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

    And finally fdisk....
    smeagol:~ 19:22:11 $ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
    Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
    Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
    until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
    content won't be recoverable.

    The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19073.
    There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
    and could in certain setups cause problems with:
    1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
    2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
       (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
    Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

    Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20000268288 bytes
    64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 19073 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

       Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

    (and then nothing)
    My laptop appears to think it's an empty iPod. I guess that means it's
    HFS? Unfortunately I do not have a Windows machine with firewire that I
    can try it with (and I am not willing to install Windows on my laptop). I
    do have HFS support enabled in the kernel, I guess I'll try updating the
    automount scripts to try reading the device as HFS?

    emma 

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