3g Ipod help

[antiproductins]

so about 3 months ago i got a video ipod for a hundred bucks from a kid at school. i plugged it in Via my old fire wire cable for my 3G and it fried my new ipod. well i was kinda pissed so i went to apple. and found out there was a warranty on it the kid didnt know about and it had like a week left. so i renewed it and they gave me a new ipod for free. well the guy told me it was because i used a fire wire with an ipod that ws designed for a usb and told me not to use it with a fire wire cable and then told me to only use a firewire cable with the 3g.

well if im only supposed to use a firewire cable with the 3g then how am i supposed to use the 3g with rockbox? THe 3G manual says that it doesnt support fire wire???

thanks
joe

[scorche]

It doesn't support the *detection* of Firewire.  This means that you have to manually boot it into disk mode when you insert the cable.

[antiproductins]

o ok thanks.

[antiproductins]

hbow do i manually boot it

[linuxstb]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ipod+disk+mode

[dommo]

I've plugged my iPod into my computer via firewire (80gb 5.5G iPoo) and nothing bad happened, it effectively said "it won't work! usb! now! fool!" Something like that anyway

[linuxstb]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ipod+disk+mode

[BrownEyes]

Wow   i never knew this 'putting in disc mode' either.

It now is recognized through firewire too, i even bought a dual firewire/usb cable to get this to work.. (Firewire would charge the ipod while synching, the usb cable would synch but not charge, the firewire cable wouldn't recognize the ipod   so i eventually found a dual cable to be able to charge through the firewire (driver disabled in device manager) and synch through usb..)

I was a bit unsure about this, since the ipod was not recognized anymore in windoze.

I hope there will be updated versions for this