Re: iPod mini + ASUS P3B-F motherboard + FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

From: Toomas Aas (toomas.aas_at_raad.tartu.ee)
Date: 05/31/05

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To: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com>

    Tony Shadwick wrote:

    > Be aware that the iPod has some freaky partitioning going on. Even if
    > you format the 'drive' as fat32, there's still a partition there you're
    > not seeing.

    Yep, I understand that. The 'drive' has already been formatted to fat32.
    That happened when I installed the iPod software to a Windows PC and
    connected iPod to it.

    Meanwhile, back at my FreeBSD machine, I booted up with a Knoppix 3.7 CD
    and could mount the iPod successfully as /dev/sda2 and see some
    directories on it (/Calendar, /Notes and whatnot). I'm now upgrading my
    FreeBSD to today's 5-STABLE, and if that won't help I'll put in an
    add-on PCI card with USB2 ports.

    Upgrading the BIOS of my ASUS P3B-F motherboard to latest non-beta
    version (1006) didn't seem to have any effect on this issue.

    > Read over the info at the ipod linux site. That should clear things up
    > for you. :)

    I've been reading all those sites for past couple of days. It just seems
    that things that work for other people for some reason don't work for me :) 

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