Ipodpatch

[keithmh]

My Ipod is a 5G 30GB, I extract the zip file that was downloaded to the root folder of the Ipod.  The problem I am having is when I use the Ipodpatcher that was downloaded from the link in the manual I get the following error message

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[ERR]  No ipods found, aborting
[ERR]  Please connect your ipod and ensure it is in disk mode
[ERR]  Please refer to the Rockbox manual if you continue to have problems.

Press ENTER to exit ipodpatcher :

I've tried this in disk mode and normal mode, restarted the PC, tried a different USB port and cable.  The Ipod works perfectly fine and shows up in Windows Explorer but I can't seem to get Ipodpatcher to find my Ipod to boot Rockbox.  Any ideas would be much appreciated

[linuxstb]

Which version of Windows are you running?

Does the user you are running ipodpatcher.exe as have Administrator rights?

[keithmh]

Windows XP with SP2 and yeah I'm logged in as Adminstrator as we speak

[slacker]

hi,

That's my problem too..

I have a ipod video 30GB, and I try execute "ipodpatcher.exe" on my winXP(SP2) and "No ipods found, aborting".
After it I try on linux(gentoo  ), as root - of course -, and "No ipods found, aborting" again.


somebody help me?

thanks  8-)

[AlexP]

I'm going to premise this with I think:

Three days ago linuxstb committed a change to iPod patcher to do with partition types which I believe has to do with iPod detection, but I don't think an updated iPodpatcher has yet been released.

I think he plans to shortly, but I don't want to speak for anyone else.

[GodEater]

somebody help me?

Could you paste the output of "fdisk -l" from your linux install when you have the ipod attached to it and in disk mode please ?

[slacker]

Could you paste the output of "fdisk -l" from your linux install when you have the ipod attached to it and in disk mode please ?

of course!

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        3595    28876806    7  HPFS ou NTFS
/dev/hda2   *        3596        3604       72292+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            3605        4820     9767520   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            4821        4870      401625   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device     Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       19456   156280288+   7  HPFS ou NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device     Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1          10       80293+   0   empty
/dev/sdb2              11        3648    29222235    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

thankyou!  

[slacker]

Ok people, I do it!  

The solution is very simple. I restore the ipod's firmware and solve my problem.
ok, ok.. I know.. just it.

ipodpatcher detect the ipod and I am happy.  



Thanks a lot!