If I remember rightly, you can't use a mac-formatted ipod but need a mac+win-able ipod (meaning fat32). This is remembered from a few years back so I could easily be wrong, someone please correct me...
Dan 2010/5/19 James Harkins <[email protected]>: > I was hoping to use a 160GB ipod classic as a music lib and external storage > in puredyne. I'd been told that ubuntu variants should detect the pod and > maybe even mount it automatically. Puredyne 9.10 doesn't - i.e., if I plug > in a fat32-formatted flash drive, I can see /dev/sdb* but with the ipod, > nothing. > > ls /dev/sd* > > /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6 > > I installed the rhythmbox package (supposedly supports ipod) thinking it > might install a dependency that would get the kernel to recognize the > device. No luck. > > It's not a hardware or cable problem - I booted into winxp on the same > machine and it's fine. > > There must be a driver somewhere... ideas? Google searching was not very > helpful. Some sites just say "install gtkpod" or something but they all seem > to assume the device will actually show up under /dev. > > Thanks. > James > > > -- > > James Harkins /// dewdrop world > [email protected] > http://www.dewdrop-world.net > > "Come said the Muse, > Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, > Sing me the universal." -- Whitman > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > -- http://www.mcld.co.uk --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
