Re: Can't manage my iPod
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:19:03 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote:
> I used to be able to manage my iPod fine, but now it's almost
> impossible. The device mounts and is browseable, although I get this
> output from fdisk
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 4095 MB, 4095737344 bytes 241 heads, 62 sectors/track,
> 535 cylinders Units = cylinders of 14942 * 512 = 7650304 bytes Disk
> identifier: 0x20202020
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 11 80293+ 0 Empty
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 1, 2)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(9, 254, 63) logical=(10, 181, 8)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb2
> 11 536 3919415+ b W95 FAT32 Partition 2 has different
> physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(10, 0, 7) logical=(10, 181, 15)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(497, 240, 62) logical=(535, 88, 61)
>
> is this normal?
>
> I tried 5 different softwares (Rhythmbox, Amarok 2.2.1, Songbird,
> Banshee, GTKPod) and currently the only one that sees the iPod is
> Rhythmbox (although its support is partial, as I can transfer files to
> the device but not remove or modify them). The others don't even see it.
>
> iPod is nano 4GB 1st gen, clean and reinitialized from iTunes on
> windows.
>
> What can I do to troubleshoot this?
Dunno, but at least for Banshee it seems to be a recent bug:
Underlying distros moving from HAL to DeviceKit breaks Podsleuths ability
to mount device
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586508
I'd say the other programs can have similar problems with these kind of
devices as well as other distributions are facing the same problem.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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