On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:31:28PM -0500, Clyde Cottingham wrote:
> Sorry Mike,
> I'm not following you here.
> This one stores up to 32gb of mp3s, etc...
> My experience is that if first plugged into a mac, you can't do much 
> -add/remove songs from a pc. There are work arounds - disk utility, restore 
> to original settings in a pc etc...
> Like any other cf device, I believe fat32 is the best choice for portability, 
> esp. linux.
> I could be wrong, I doubt it is not formatted one way or another regardless 
> of the communication protocol or data base.

You're wrong.

The ipod *touch* is a variant of the iphone design.  It is *not the
same* as previous ipods.  It is *not a usb attached disk*.  Period.  You
don't mount it.  You don't format it.  You don't get to copy files to
it.  It has an internal filesystem and database, which is accessed via a
proprietary USB protocol.  The internal format is irrelevant as it is
not exposed to the host.  It is most likely HFS+, but as I said, this is
irrelevant.

Non-Touch/Iphone ipods are USB mass storage devices.  The device Matt
asked about is not one of them.

Do not buy an iphone or ipod touch if you want to use it as USB attached
storage with linux.  It won't work.

-m

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