Ipod as a mass storage device.

[t10]

Sorry, this is a bit off tangent but someone may know the answer.

I have a car audio deck with usb mass storage support.
My 60GB Toshiba G40 works perfectly with it, and so does a noname other portable 1.8" disk enclosure with an 80Gb drive.

Ipod pulls some weird stuff though, almost like the initial handshake is not the same as for the two devices above. My car deck right away says device not supported and unplugs it, then ipod quickly goes into "it is now ok to disconnect".

Is there any plugin that will turn the ipod into a standard mass storage device upon usb connect, by changing the way it handshakes/communicates?   I know it works just fine as a massstorage on windows machines, but it does jump through a few hoops first.

PS. my deck is Pioneer P4000DVD

[GodEater]

As far as I can tell this has nothing to do with Rockbox ?

[t10]

GodEater, you are right. But Rockbox controls the ipod, so I was hoping someone had a  plugin or similar to override the issue.

[MarcGuay]

Since Rockbox doesn't have it's own (working) USB stack, your 2 options are to try connecting while in the Apple firmware or booting into disk mode and connecting there.  They both show themselves as regular MSC devices to PCs as far as I know.

[t10]

The Mac firmware doesnt work, I tried that.

Booting into disc mode however? How would I do that?
Doh! /newbie facepalm



Never mind   Google knows all lol.
Will try it. Thank you!