iPod and Firewire

Jim Richardson warlock at eskimo.com
Sun May 29 19:30:24 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 11:03 -0700, imaek wrote:
> On 5/29/05, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/29/05, imaek <imaekphp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have an iPod that I would like to use with gtkpod, but for whatever
> > > reason, ubuntu has decided not to detect firewire at all.  I was using
> > > a tutorial from the ubuntu forums and it told me to link /mnt/ipod to
> > > /dev/sdc2 - but there is no /dev/sdc2 (there are no sdc's for that
> > > matter - 'ls /dev/sd*' returns nothing).  Someone else told me to try
> > > 'dmesg | grep 1394' but that returns a whole bunch of meaningless
> > > stuff (see forum post link at bottom).  Somebody elese told me to
> > > 'tail -f /var/log/messages' and then plug in my iPod, but nothing
> > > happens.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am in such a terrible place right now - on the brink of getting my
> > > iPod working again, yet so far away - that any help would be
> > > appreciated.
> > >
> > > (Note: Forum Topic Here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=37880 )
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > imaek - imaekphp at gmail.com
> > >
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> > >
> > 
> > 
> > If you can add a Volume Label to the partition in Linux or Windows,
> > (mine is set as IPOD) when ubuntu detects the drive by firewire or
> > usb, it will mount it as /media/VolumeName.  You can then just point
> > gtkpod to that mount point under its preferences.
> > 
> > As far as fire wire detection, I haven't had any issues with it.
> > Check that you have the modules loaded..
> > 
> > ieee1394
> > ohci1394
> > sbp2
> > 
> > also you need the scsi disk modules..
> > 
> > scsi_mod and sd_mod
> > 
> > hope that helps.
> > 
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> 
> Thank you!  I had to 'sudo modprobe sd_mod', and now it is loaded, but
> still I don't get anything when I 'tail -f /var/log/messages/', and I
> still get the following when I 'dmesg | grep 1394':
> 
> ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
> ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins at debian.org>
> ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000!
> ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] 
> MMIO=[fc9ee000-fc9ee7ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
> ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[00308d0120d2c43e]
> ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[000a2700025751c0]
> ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new
> root node and resetting...
> ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
> ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
> ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
> ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[000a2700025751c0]
> ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
> ieee1394: Node resumed: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[000a2700025751c0]
> ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new
> root node and resetting...
> ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
> ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
> 
> I don't see how I can add a volume name to it, and it isn't a drive -
> it's only an iPod for music.

the iPod is treated as just a firewire (or usb) drive by Linux. You can
store files on it, etc, as well as put music on it. 


After you have plugged in the iPod, and modprobed the rel event modules,
give it a few seconds, and see if it's been mounted, just run mount in a
terminal, and see if there's a reference to a scsi device (Linux treats
most removable drives as part of the scsi-generic stuff) if mount shows
nothing there, go to System->Preferences->Removable drives and media and
check on the two mount options there. 

Then remove the iPod and reinsert it (you may have to rmmod sbp2 to make
it let go first) 

Also, if you have a Mac format iPod, (HFS+ rather than Fat32)  you will
need the hfsplus modile as well. 

-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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