iPod photo with Ubuntu

[Vincenzo Di Massa]

You could try to use split and cat to resolve the problem:
# split -b 10m iso-file iso-file-
# for f in `/bin/ls iso-file-*`; do cat $f >> dest-file ; done

This should work if the problem is just a timeout.

Ciao Vincenzo.
Alle 08:07, giovedì 10 marzo 2005, Paul Schulz ha scritto:
> Greetings,
> Does anyone have an iPod Photo (60Gb) and sucessfully used it with Ubuntu.
> (I'm currently using Warth Warthog).
>
> Things OK using Ubuntu.
> - Mounting - Automatically detected and mounted as /media/sda2
> (Windows version of IPod)
> - Browsing - Can created subdirectories and browse from the desktop.
> - gtkpod - OK, but very easy to delete all file. (Sync to 'nothing').
>
> - Repartitioning and reformatting. I have been able to repartition the iPod
>   into '/dev/sda1', '/dev/sda2' and '/dev/sda3' and sucessfully put an
> ext3 filesystem
>   on the third partition.
>
>   (I have since reverted to factory default configuraton, using
> Apples' iPod update tool
>   under windows.)
>
> Problems:
> - What I try and transfer a large file (iso image) the transfer will
> lockup as about 30s
>    to 1 minute into the transfer.
>
>   It 'feels' like the IPod itself has a timeout. As the linux transfer
> hangs.
>
>   Transferring large files to other external USB drives on the same machine
> work without a problem. (Large ISO's)
>
>   (This problem occured with both the vfat filesystem (default) and
> the ext3 filesystem.)
>
>   After this lockup has occured, the iPod is no longer mounted/unmounted
>   by the desktop, when the USB is unplugged and re-inserted.
>
> Any comments welcome.
> I have 1 serivce call available to Apple which runs out end of March.
> Any suggestions on what I should ask them?
>
> Regards, Paul