Mounting an iPod

Andrew Diakin adiakin at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 09:46:57 PST 2005


2005/10/30, edward <kouye at wanadoo.fr>:
> I rebuilt the kernel with HFS/HFS+ support and it boots and loads OK.
> But no luck mounting the iPod on the firewire port. No luck on the USB
> port either :
> # mount -t hfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
> hfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not supported by device
>
> Same happens with /dev/da0s2 and /dev/da0s3
> Any ideas ?
> Edward
>
> James Seward wrote:
> > On 10/29/05, edward <kouye at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> >>The iPod uses an HFS+ file system. It's been loaded from a Mac.
> >>I would like to mount it to /mnt/ipod
> >
> >
> > A quick Google suggests you can try
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ to add HFS support to FreeBSD,
> > otherwise you're going to have to reformat your iPod for Windows and
> > then mount it as FAT.
> >
> > I then added this line:
> > /dev/da0s2              /ipod           msdos   rw,noauto       0       0
> >
> > to my fstab, and wrote myself a little ipod script I can use to mount
> > and umount/eject it.
> >
> > To mount it it just mounts /ipod, and to eject it, i umounts /ipod and
> > then calls camcontrol eject on the right device ID to eject it (so the
> > iPod stops thinking it's connected).
> >
> > I can offer further assistance with the 2nd half but not the 1st half of this :)
> >
> > /JMS
> >
> >
>
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You data must be in /dev/daX is it written at
http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ :
"The entire disk of your iPod will be accessible as /dev/daX, where X
is a number assigned to this new device upon plugging it. The
GEOM_APPLE module will further split the disk into /dev/daXs1, a
partition map partition (yes, it's self-contained); /dev/daXs2, a
firmware partition; and /dev/daXs3, an HFS Plus volume partition.
Obviously, you should mount the latter."


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