VMWare and iPod question

[Bart Silverstrim]

Tipton, Timothy wrote:
> Bart,
> 
> I've been using VMware / iTunes for about 6 months now - never had a
> problem, except when I tried to upgrade to the latest ipod update - I
> didn't ever experience a bsod - but it just never would update... was in
> some sort of loop and wouldn't ever finish - that could have something
> to do with me having Rockbox on mine as well - so the boot function has
> changed...
> 
> Since I did upgrade to the latest, though, it messed my whole iPod up
> and now I can only get the Rockbox side to boot, no apple firmware ;\ -
> but anyway, just wanted to let you know, I have been using your exact
> set up without problems up till last night...
> 
> Happy New Year! (have a GREAT O-EIGHT!)

Thanks!  I had previous advice (from John) about using rmmod on 
ehci_hcd, and it seemed to have both disabled high-speed USB access to 
my external hard drives and solved my inability to use iTunes in WinXP 
on VMWare Server and my iPod Nano.  Oh well...I'll trade high speed 
access for now if it means I can use the Nano on my Linux system instead 
of having to install Windows on a second machine.

On mine it did a full restore with firmware 1.1.3 and reformatted it for 
Windows (I assume it means FAT) then slowly copied over over 100 
podcasts.  So far, it seems to be working well.

Thanks again for the feedback!

-Bart