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Question about using rockbox for audio and original firmware for video- ipod 5g
cool_walking_:
I don't think bad blocks will randomly stop it from mounting, so no, I think that's caused by something else.
mrufino1:
Any possible reasons you can think of? So far I have not really found anything. As I said, I am wondering if it is the physical computer? My ubuntu may be screwy too because I am still learning it. I may want to do a fresh install one of these days soon. Is there any possibility that the ipod firmware may have something to do with it? It was 1.2.1 when I got it, then 1.2.2 on last restore, now 1.2.3- maybe they did something that would have made it more difficult? The searches on the ubuntu forums didn't really lead me to any understandable answers.
cool_walking_:
Well I'm thinking it must be a problem with either the physical USB port, or the Apple firmware. The output of "dmesg | tail" just after plugging in your iPod may be useful. Though this is straying into being off-topic, so maybe it's best to take it over to http://linuxquestions.org and/or http://ubuntuforums.org.
EDIT: hrm.. it works fine in Windows on the same PC? I'm really not sure then...
EDIT AGAIN: err.. A Windows machine? So you haven't tested it in Windows on the same box? Then.. back to thinking hardware problem with the PC.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: mrufino1 on December 04, 2007, 07:34:19 PM ---No, but what will happen is that ubuntu is not mounting it (or in some cases it is in the media folder under a name like "sda2") but the ipod itself says it is connected. Therefore, there is no way to safely disconnect it (and I mean physically disconnect it).
--- End quote ---
Yes there is.
You need to establish which disk device the ipod is (it sounds like it's common /dev/sda from your text above), but an "fdisk -l" should help you confirm it - an ipod should have two partitions, the first one is quite small (around 100MB or so), and the second takes up the rest of the disk.
Once you've identified it like that, you can use the "eject" command to get your ipod to report that it's safe to disconnect :
--- Code: ---eject /dev/sda
--- End code ---
mrufino1:
Thank you, that will help if this happens again.
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