Uwe Hermann - m4v

Unable to mount video iPod 30GB

June 5, 2006, 3:48 pm

So here I am writing about something to which I was unable to find an answer anywhere else. My wife gave me a 30GB iPod with video and I am unable to mount it. My wife also has an iPod Mini, which...

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Hm, strange. Are you sure

June 5, 2006, 6:48 pm

Hm, strange. Are you sure sda2 is correct? Plug in the iPod, then wait a few seconds, then type dmesg. There should be a line which says sda2 (or something else).Also, try to quit gtkpod before...

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Thank you for your response, Uwe. Per your suggestion, I typed in dmesg and here are the last few lines of the output: usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, address 4 usb 2-1.3: new full speed USB device using...

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iPod device

June 6, 2006, 2:46 pm

Yes, I think you are ;)The /dev/hcd7 is definately wrong, there's no such device (I guess you derived that from the "uhci_hcd and address 7", but that's wrong).The "no configuration chosen from 2...

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Hub?

June 7, 2006, 8:00 am

Yes, I do have sda1 and sda2. sda1 is mounted at /boot (I'm assuming that this is my hard drive) and sda2 is throwing up the 'already mounted or /media/ipod busy' error. The iPod works otherwise. I...

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Unable to unmount/eject iPod

June 7, 2006, 8:08 am

Now that I am able to mount my iPod when it is connected directly to a USB port on my PC, I still need to unmount/eject it. What happens now is that exiting gtkpod generates an error telling me that...

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Ok, unmounting (as root)

June 7, 2006, 10:43 am

Ok, unmounting (as root) should work if you quit gtkpod before trying to unmount (not sure about eject).The "Do Not Disconnect" will be there forever, it doesn't change on Linux, regardless of whether...

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sda1 vs. hda1

June 7, 2006, 10:47 am

Be careful, I think you mean /dev/hda1 is your hard drive, not /dev/sda1...USB devices are usually called sda*, sdb* etc. Normal (IDE) hard drives are called hda*, hdb*, usually. However, there are...

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Thank You.

June 7, 2006, 4:39 pm

Thank you for your help, Uwe. "umount" successfully unmounted the iPod, as verified by "mount". Also, not like it matters, but the "Do Not Disconnect" disappears on my wife's iPod Mini. Sounds like...

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How-to copy video file to an ipod 5G

July 5, 2006, 4:15 pm

I was wandering how to do this for a long time...1) using GTKPOD create a PLAYLIST named "Videos" 2) put your file there 3) sync 4) enjoyjust wonder why i couldnt(and still cannot) find something like...

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