ipod

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peter lesterhuis wrote:
>>
>> I followed the thread about the useability of ipods with linux. I
>> > just bought an ipod (nano 3rd gen, 4 Gb) for my daughter's birthday.
>> > When I connected the ipod to my box the filesystem of the hard disk
>> > was not recognized. I  rebooted into WinXP, which configured the
>> > filesystem into vfat. Back to fedora8 the ipod was being recognized:
>> > an icon appeared on the desktop, the mountpoint seemed to be
>> > /media/IPOD.  The problem is that I can't get gtkpod to load the
>> > ipod. When I start gtkpod this message pops up:
>> >
>> > Error initialising iPod: Couldn't find the iPod firewire ID
>> > Newly mounted iPod at '/media/IPOD' could not be loaded into gtkpod.
>> >
>> > The ipod is connected via usb, not firewire. Included with the ipod
>> > was only a cable with a usb-plug.  How can I get gtkpod to work,
>> > using this connection?  I tried amarok, but here the same problem.
>>  
>> The underlying problem is that libgpod (the library both amarok and
>> gtkpod use to read and write the ipod's database) can't seem to get
>> the (strangely named) FireWireGUID for the ipod.  This is needed to
>> properly write the database for all the newer ipods (nano video,
>> classic, touch, and iphone).
>>
>> There is a tool in libgpod that ideally will run when the ipod is
>> connected and fetch this info from the ipod so that amarok, gtkpod,
>> etc, can properly write the db.  For some reason, that seems to not
>> have worked in your case.  If there's a reproducible bug there, I'd
>> love to help get it fixed.
>>
>> As Richard suggested, it might be interesting to run  "tailf
>> /var/log/messages" and then plug the ipod in, to see if there are any
>> errors.
>>
>> The other thing to try is to run ipod-read-sysinfo-extended.  The
>> arguments for the program are <dev> <mountpoint>.  The device will be
>> something like /dev/sdb.  You can look at the output of dmesg|tail
>> after you've plugged your ipod in to see what device name it has.  You
>> do want to use the raw device like sdb rather than sdb1 or sdb2, etc.
>> The mountpoint would be /media/IPOD in your case.  So the command
>> might be:
>>
>> ipod-read-sysinfo-extended /dev/sdb /media/IPOD
>>
>> That will attempt to read the FireWireGUID from the ipod and save it
>> as a file on the ipod so that amarok, gtkpod, and other libgpod using
>> apps can get at it easily.  If you get any errors running that, please
>> post them.
>>
>>   
> Thanks for your answer.
> This is the output of /var/log/messages after plugging in the ipod:
> tail -f /var/log/messages
> Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: create_tcp_client:321: hostname 
> lookup failed: Operation not permitted
> Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: lookup_mount: exports lookup 
> failed for iTunes_Control
> Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key 
> "iPod_Control" not found in map
> Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key 
> "iTunes" not found in map
> Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key 
> "iTunes_Control" not found in map
> Jan 13 16:38:21 cello kernel: drivers/input/misc/ati_remote.c: Weird 
> data, len=5 20 d5 54 bd 4e 00 ...
> Jan 13 16:58:26 cello kernel: ati_remote 4-2:1.0: Unknown input from 
> channel 0x08: data 4d,54
> Jan 13 17:10:41 cello kernel: ati_remote 4-2:1.0: Unknown input from 
> channel 0x09: data 4e,54
> Jan 13 17:11:44 cello yum: Updated: k9copy - 1.2.2-1.lvn8.i386
> Jan 13 17:12:37 cello kernel: drivers/input/misc/ati_remote.c: Weird 
> data, len=5 20 d5 d4 e5 49 00 ...
> Jan 13 17:14:22 cello kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using 
> ehci_hcd and address 7
> Jan 13 17:14:22 cello kernel: usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 2 
> choices
> Jan 13 17:14:22 cello kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
> Storage devices
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Apple    
> iPod             1.62 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] 950209 4096-byte 
> hardware sectors (3892 MB)
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: 
> write through
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] 950209 4096-byte 
> hardware sectors (3892 MB)
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: 
> write through
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel:  sdg: sdg1
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI 
> removable disk
> Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 
> type 0
> Jan 13 17:14:28 cello gnome-keyring-daemon[2864]: adding removable 
> location: volume_uuid_3141_5926 at /media/IPOD
> Jan 13 17:14:28 cello hald: mounted /dev/sdg1 on behalf of uid 500
>
> After the command "ipod-read-sysinfo-extended /dev/sdg /media/IPOD" 
> there is this error:
> "Couldn't read xml sysinfo from /dev/sdg
>
>
Are you running the command as Root?

-Max