Hi,
I sent this entire email to Alan Donovan also. I am sending it to the contact emails for all of the pages that helped me with my ipod, in hopes that my experience can help someone else.
I had reasonably good luck with hpfsplus and gtkpod on my Fedora Core 3 system (with a
recent kernel). However, the hpfs tools suck. So the first time you
disconnect without unmounting or some such, you're looking at a hack job
to fix it. Because since the second time that happened my space
reporting has been hosed, I decided to change over to fat. Anyway, using
your guide and someone else's as well, I ran into problems with mkfs.vfat.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ipod]# mkfs.vfat -F 32 -I -n "My iPod" /dev/sda2 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.vfat: failed whilst writing reserved sector
Every combination I tried produced this result. Even tried ext2 which worked fine. This was a clue for me. What I did then was go back to fdisk and rather than create two partitions, I created three. The third just has one block in it like so:
Disk /dev/sda: 4095 MB, 4095737856 bytes 126 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders Units = cylinders of 7812 * 512 = 3999744 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 9 35123 0 Empty /dev/sda2 10 1023 3960684 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1024 1024 3906 83 Linux
This is before changing sda2 to be type b. This did the trick. I got no complaints from mkfs.vfat anymore. I am still in the process of putting everything back on the disk, but so far so good. I just thought I would pass this along and maybe help someone else.
Thanks again,
-- kr
_______________________________________________ Bug-gnupod mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupod
