[Bug 37163] Hardware problem all along

[Ylan]

It turns out that all my problems with the ipod had a simple
explanation: The ipod's hard drive is faulty, as reported by its own
diagnostics. (It just happened to coincide with me moving to dapper).

I would suggest that anyone still having problems without EFI support in
their kernel try to run diagnostics on their ipod to eliminate that as a
possibility.

http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/ipodsupport/diagnosticmode/

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Ipods react badly to checks for EFI partition tables
https://launchpad.net/bugs/37163