[wellylug] Ipod with Linux

[Pete Black]

Yeah my 4G 20G iPod works with Linux. I routine use it to transport gigs 
of data.

I plugged in into my Fedora Core 3 machine and it was immediately 
recongnised and a suitable icon placed on my desktop which was nice.

I've got it running on a debian box at work - though sometimes i have to 
rmmod modules like eth1394 before it will pick up the drive and assign a 
device to it and also i have to pass the 'serialize_io=1' param to the 
sbp2 module or transfer rates are awful. I can't for the life of me 
figure out how to get gnome-volume monitor and hald/hotplug/udev to 
automount it on insertion like Fedora does, but oh well.

The short answer is that if you have a working firewire controller 
(havent tried with USB) it should work just fine. (also, note that the 
'eject' command works to stop the 'do not remove device' message on the 
ipod whereas most resources on the net tell you that you need to rmmod 
sbp2 which in my view is very wrong)

-Pete

>Anybody with any luck to store data on an Ipod ?
>Thanks
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