I wrote:
Is anyone successfully using this mix of old and new technology? I'm
trying to, but I'm not succeeding.
The on-board USB ports on this machine are USB1.1, which, while not
"officially" supported by Apple, should work with iPod according to many
reports on the Net. I do understand that it would be very slow, though.
The very first time I took the iPod out of the package and connected it
to my PC, it was recognized successfully:
May 30 20:08:32 premium kernel: umass0: Apple iPod mini, rev 2.00/0.01,
addr 2
May 30 20:12:52 premium kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
May 30 20:12:52 premium kernel: da0: <Apple iPod 1.62> Removable Direct
Access SCSI-0 device
Note, however, that there's a 4 minute time gap between umass0 and da0
lines.
Since my machine doesn't have any support for reading the HFS (or is it
HFS+?) file system which is what the iPod has out of the box, I couldn't
however mount any slices from da0. I tried disconnecting and
re-connecting the iPod a few times and now the umass0 line appears but
the da0 line doesn't appear at all, even after waiting for 40 minutes.
I went to a Windows PC with USB2 ports and connected the iPod to that.
It was recognized immediately and re-formatted as FAT32. Back to my
FreeBSD PC and there's no change - when plugging in the iPod, the umass0
line appears in dmesg, but the da0 line doesn't.
What would be the best course of action to get the iPod talking to my
FreeBSD box?
- install an add-on USB 2.0 card ?
- update the PC-s BIOS to latest version (there is a newer version than
the one I'm running now)?
- update to latest -STABLE (current checkout is from May 10)?
- wipe FreeBSD and install Windows? (just kidding!!!)
- something else?
I have now tried all the suggestions above, except installing Windows or
doing "something else", and I still haven't gotten any further.
The most irritating thing is that if I boot my PC with Knoppix 3.7 CD, I
can successfully mount the iPod as /dev/sda2.
Some more googling has revealed that similar problems have been reported
with OpenBSD and NetBSD, but no solution seems to exist:
http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive2/misc/200501/msg00149.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2004/09/14/0000.html
One last resort I can think of is FireWire. But for that I would need to
get a FireWire adapter (any recommendations?) and iPod dock connector to
FireWire cable. Both ca 20 EUR. And I'm still not sure it would work.
I'm planning to file a PR on this. The kernel with USB_DEBUG is being
built as I type. But for now it looks like FreeBSD users would do well
to steer clear of the 2nd generation iPod mini.
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