On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:03:24PM +0100, Ed Wandasiewicz wrote: > What's the difference between not mounting and not working? > > Identical in that it was recognized but you couldn't mount it. But the dmesg > from sd0 was clearly wrong. So I rebuilt everything. > > If the output of your dmesg is incorrect, i.e. > > sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <Apple, iPod, 2.70> SCSI4 0/direct removable > sd0: 486MB, 62 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 996030 sec total > > Showing a storage size of 0.5 GB, how is fdisk / disklabel going to show > anything different?
My ipod is 0.5GB... > You don't need to amend anything via fdisk/disklabel on your ipod. The 3.7 > kernel reads the hard disk just fine. A clean build is is in order. Have you tried your ipods with 3.7-current? That's what I'm using. Before, I did not need to play with disklabel, now I do. Something broke and I don't know what. Thanks for your fdisk/disklabel output.