iPod mini + ASUS P3B-F motherboard + FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

Tony Shadwick tshadwick at goinet.com
Tue May 31 14:35:33 PDT 2005


Be aware that the iPod has some freaky partitioning going on.  Even if you 
format the 'drive' as fat32, there's still a partition there you're not 
seeing.

Read over the info at the ipod linux site.  That should clear things up 
for you. :)

Tony

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Toomas Aas wrote:

> Is anyone successfully using this mix of old and new technology? I'm trying 
> to, but I'm not succeeding.
>
> The on-board USB ports on this machine are USB1.1, which, while not 
> "officially" supported by Apple, should work with iPod according to many 
> reports on the Net. I do understand that it would be very slow, though.
>
> The very first time I took the iPod out of the package and connected it to my 
> PC, it was recognized successfully:
>
> May 30 20:08:32 premium kernel: umass0: Apple iPod mini, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 
> 2
> May 30 20:12:52 premium kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> May 30 20:12:52 premium kernel: da0: <Apple iPod 1.62> Removable Direct 
> Access SCSI-0 device
>
> Note, however, that there's a 4 minute time gap between umass0 and da0 lines.
>
> Since my machine doesn't have any support for reading the HFS (or is it 
> HFS+?) file system which is what the iPod has out of the box, I couldn't 
> however mount any slices from da0. I tried disconnecting and re-connecting 
> the iPod a few times and now the umass0 line appears but the da0 line doesn't 
> appear at all, even after waiting for 40 minutes.
>
> I went to a Windows PC with USB2 ports and connected the iPod to that. It was 
> recognized immediately and re-formatted as FAT32. Back to my FreeBSD PC and 
> there's no change - when plugging in the iPod, the umass0 line appears in 
> dmesg, but the da0 line doesn't.
>
> What would be the best course of action to get the iPod talking to my FreeBSD 
> box?
> - install an add-on USB 2.0 card ?
> - update the PC-s BIOS to latest version (there is a newer version than
>  the one I'm running now)?
> - update to latest -STABLE (current checkout is from May 10)?
> - wipe FreeBSD and install Windows? (just kidding!!!)
> - something else?
>
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