Greetings, Mr. Data! At this document, http://www.e-vse.com/csi/doc/hfs/Release%201.0A/HFS%20Provisional.pdf look for the WAKEUP command. It says (quote): 'Certain parts of the HFS are necessarily single-threaded. If problems occur, it is possible that HFS can be left in a _locked_ state with one or more partitions and/or subtasks left in an undenning wait state. The WAKEUP command will free all of outstanding waits that currently exist for HFS. Use this with caution blah blah blah...' Note that the aforementioned WAKEUP command belongs to CSIHFBAT utility, which I take must belong to MacOS X (wild guess). Perhaps trying to WAKEUP your iPod from MacOSX with this tool may leave it in an orderly state for the linux kernel to mount it. Hope that it helps, Pancho. On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:38:56PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > Hi. > > The other day I unplugged my iPod from the computer before unmounting it. It > refused to mount rw, so i used hpfsck to destroy the contents of my iPod. > > Mac OS X came into rescue to restore the white gadget, but there after i am > unable to mount it under Linux to perform the needed operations. It complains: > > HFS-fs: Filesystem is marked locked, mounting read-only. > > I have tried to erase the whole thing by dd'ing /dev/zero to the device and > restoring the whole thing under Mac OS X, which has no troubles accessing and > modifying the filesystem, but which has no references to the lock being > possible to be unlocked. > > Google only spots a cuople of "comment the kernel code and see what happens". > > Does anyone have any idea? > -- > Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org > Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.6.14|Helsinki Finland > GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 > > That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten. > --Wolf (Pulp Fiction) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Pancho Horrillo To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
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