MacOS not mounting iPod -- found a workaround

[Lustily6144]

Hello all,

iPod 7th gen, 4 x 256 GB, iFlash quad and restored on iTunes (windows) and installed rockbox on Windows too.

I spent hours trying to restore/install rockbox on my iPod because I couldn't find the reason why my MacBook wasn't recognizing it in Rockbox or in original firmware mode. Nothing was working and allowing me to start adding music. Rockbox installed fine, I even had themes.

Long story short, I found a forum, where someone used some terminal commands to basically force MacOS to mount the iPod. Works until you eject the device, but next time you connect, you'll have to run these commands again. Is there a reason why this has to be done? Not too excited about having to run them every time.

If it helps, this is how disk utility sees it. It's not grayed out at the moment since I've ran these commands. Below is what the user had suggested and worked:

I had to mount it “the linux way” in macOS. Here’s what I did:

diskutil list # get the partition number of your iPod , it’s disk4s2 for me
sudo mkdir /Volumes/arpod # a folder name for your liking
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk4s2 /Volumes/arpod

And after this, it mounted successfully on macOS.