Problems with new iPod and Edgy

[Ed Smits]

While doing some googling on the topic came across the following:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/66068

"Bug #66068: New iPod nano recognized as via raid member"

turns out it is a bug and a patch is available to fix the problem

http://gamesplace.info/opensource/ubuntu/hal/ipod-nano-fix/

I'll test it out tonight.

ED

On 12/27/06, Ed Smits <ed.smits at gmail.com> wrote:
> More on the new iPod problem outlined below, maybe this might help.
> Unfortunately I'm out of my league here...
>
> 1) when I do "sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /media/ipod/" the iPod is
> mounted, however Amarok reports that the user doesn't have permission
> to connect to the iPod. I've tried various combinations of options to
> give her permission when mounting, haven't yet figured it out,
> although that's my stupidity and I assume I'll figure that out
> eventually.
>
> 2) I added "/dev/sda2 /media/ipod vfat  user,noauto     0       0" to
> her fstab, connected the iPod. It mounted fine, but then a few minutes
> later the system recognises the iPod a second time (This time
> correctly, as an "Apple iPod Music Player"), so now we have 2 iPod
> system connected, at which point neither one works - the Apple one
> can't be mounted (dmesg says unrecognised file system), the ipod one
> says it's already mounted.
>
> ED
>
> On 12/27/06, Ed Smits <ed.smits at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/26/06, Mark Loeser <mark at halcy0n.com> wrote:
> > > Ed Smits <ed.smits at gmail.com> said:
> > > > My daughter got a brand new 4GB iPod nano for Christmas and we can't
> > > > get it working with her new Edgy - the system sees the iPod but
> > > > doesn't mount it. When I plug in either of the other 2 nanos (a 2GB
> > > > and a 4 GB one) here they get mounted automatically, not her new one.
> > > > Watching the activity in Device Manager as we plug and unplug the
> > > > various iPods -
> > > >
> > > > all show up under the USB EHCI Host Controller entry - SCSI Device -
> > > > iPod, however the new iPod is listed as "Volume (via_raid_member)"
> > > > whereas the 2 older ones are listed by their names as assigned to them
> > > > in iTunes in XP when the iPods were first initialised. The new iPod
> > > > has also been initialised via iTunes in the same way.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas as to why the names isn't being properly recognized and the
> > > > iPod being auto-mounted?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers. Hope I get an answer soon - she returns home in a week and I
> > > > promised her that Ubuntu could handle it all, so far this is the only
> > > > sticky issue.
> > >
> > > Actually got the same exact iPod yesterday, and saw the same exact
> > > "via_raid_member" :)  I don't automatically mount all of my stuff, so
> > > I'm not sure about that part, but you can definitely mount it manually
> > > by just specifying the filesystem as well, for example:
> > >
> > > sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /media/ipod/
> > >
> > > Whenever I did not specify vfat I got saw the nice "via_raid_member".
> > >
> > > Hope that helps somewhat,
> >
> > Thanks for your manual suggestion, that at least got it manually
> > mounted and useable, however I'm trying to set this laptop up so that
> > it is easy for her to use, and getting the iPod automounted would
> > certainly be how we'd like it to work.
> >
> > Any other ideas? I'm assuming a lot of new iPods were under the tree,
> > sounds like the problem is more pervasive than just in our case,
> > surely someone has figured out how to get it done.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > ED
> >
>