iPod 4g mounting - unmounting in cicrles without stoping - now is dead!

[liticovjesac]

Hi everybody
I am using rockbox for maybe one year and it worked perfectly.  I am runnig archlinux.
Yesterday by mistake I erase everything from my iPod usinr rsync (( But I manage very easy to reinstall rockbox. I used latest build with automatic installation. So, everything was working ok. I could play my podcast, music, turn on -off.
Today when I run out of battery I tried to connect ipod via usb (as usual) to my computer. And then iPod start behaving badly. It tries to mount without success. Computer sendig message naming several suggestion (none worked), and the iPOd goes to storage mode and then reboot to rockbox, and then storage mod and then...You get it. Then I have to pull the usb cable to stop this vicious circle.
Same happend when I plugged to my apple computer.
Any idea what should I do?

[GodEater]

Can you boot it into the original firmware okay ?

[liticovjesac]

Never need it after installation of rockbox. How do I do that?

Found it.
Yes I can boot with original firmware.
I CANT mount on my linux box. I can mount on my apple computer.

[GodEater]

Post the output from dmesg after you plug it in to your linux box.

[liticovjesac]

After I pluged in iPod in mac I have some apple created files there. I am able to mount on my linux box and emediatly after rockbox theme player goes to storge mode. Now I can delete an copy files. Will try another installation with stable version

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usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Apple    iPod             1.62 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Adjusting the sector count from its reported value: 39063024
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 39063023 512-byte hardware sectors: (20.0 GB/18.6 GiB)
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Adjusting the sector count from its reported value: 39063024
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
FAT: invalid media value (0x2f)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
FAT: invalid media value (0x2f)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
[liticovjesac@vampir ~]$ 

[GodEater]

Why are you trying to mount /dev/sdb1 as a FAT32 partition?

That's the firmware partition, and doesn't contain any file system at all. You should only be trying to mount /dev/sdb2.

[liticovjesac]

Well I am not trying anything It was like that from the begining. I realy dont know hot to change that anoing behaviour. Any suggestions?
Anyhow I made some progress. I was able to run autoinstaller from my linux box and I've installed stable release this time. Unmount, unplugged than plugged again and everythhing works. Thou system is still trying to mount both iPod partitions but it is important that it mounts corectly one with all music and podcasts. File transfer was done OK and it playes music We shal see how it behave in the future.
Thanx for helping me.

[GodEater]

Can you get a print out of the partition table from your ipod? If your box is trying to mount it automatically it sounds like the firmware partition is not marked as empty, but rather as a FAT32 partition (which it isn't).

[liticovjesac]

Here it is

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Disk /dev/sdb: 19073 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
  for C/H/S=*/143/62 (instead of 19073/64/32).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 4539392 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1          0+      9-     10-     40131    0  Empty
		start: (c,h,s) expected (0,1,2) found (0,1,1)
		end: (c,h,s) expected (9,8,35) found (4,254,63)
/dev/sdb2          9+   4405-   4397-  19491349    b  W95 FAT32
		start: (c,h,s) expected (9,8,36) found (5,0,1)
/dev/sdb3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty

edit.
My iPod is dead now.
I wanted to copy some music from external usb disk to my ipod. I've conneceted a disk. Then I unplugged iPod and plugged it again, it mounted it self and after few seconds icon just dissapear from the screen. Nothing on the iPod screeen. Can't start boot process, when I plugg it in my computers no reaction at all (both mac and linux box). Nothig. Dead. Is it possible to fry something in the iPod?