I tried the root permission but it didnt make any different. I encountered the same problems

Marcel

Is your iPod formatted as HFS+ or FAT? Depending on that, SuSE might not be mounting the correct partition.

HFS+ formatted iPods keep the data in /dev/sda3, but FAT-formatted ones keep it in /dev/sda2.

Hello jvale,

Thanx for your response.

I think - but i a total newbie what iPod concerns - that it isnt formated at all. I thought that gtkpod would do that be creating directories. Something i think linux is creating miracles all the time.

So did i missed a step?

I know that i the iPod-menu About it should say something about the format, but there nothing.

greeting
Marcel

As far as I know, all iPods come pre-formatted with either FAT or HFS+ and the required directory structure already created.

This is how you find out your iPod's filesystem in an iPod mini. On other iPods it should be similar, but I don't know if it's the same.

Go to 'settings' -> 'about' and (in my case) the last information is 'Format'. If it says 'Windows', it's FAT-formatted. If it says something else (probably 'Mac' or 'HFS'), it's HFS-formatted.

The strange thing is i cant find any references to the formating. But i think Windows cause like i earlier stated, i could see in the device note: /dev/sda3.

Marcel

After some reading, i found something else about mounting and looked and the var/log/messages:

After plugging in the iPod

var/log/messages

Sep 26 22:02:33 linux kernel: usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Sep 26 22:02:33 linux kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep 26 22:02:33 linux kernel: usb-storage: device found at 7
Sep 26 22:02:33 linux kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 7999487 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB)
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 7999487 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB)
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Sep 26 22:02:38 linux /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[11533]: new block device /block/sda
Sep 26 22:02:39 linux /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[11579]: new block device /block/sda/sda1
Sep 26 22:02:39 linux /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[11620]: new block device /block/sda/sda2
Sep 26 22:02:39 linux /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[11658]: new block device /block/sda/sda3
Sep 26 22:02:40 linux hal-subfs-mount[11675]: registered at resmgrd and called(0) /bin/mount -t subfs -o fs=hfsplus,sync,nosuid,nodev,exec /dev/sda3 "/media/iPod"
Sep 26 22:02:42 linux kernel: HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. mounting read-only.
Sep 26 22:02:42 linux hal.hotplug[11684]: DEVPATH is not set
Sep 26 22:02:45 linux hal.hotplug[11687]: DEVPATH is not set


Does this make any sense?

Marcel

do you have Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) runing? check if you have to add a line or 2 to configure your ipod on it ... On gentoo i dint have to.

When i first plugged the iPod in, suse plugger found it. So i didn't needed to ad extra lines to configure it.
But now i'm thinking in a different direction. I can read the disk, but cant write to it. So i think its not mounted correctly and by that the disk is / looks block for re entry. DOes did make sense?

Marcel

No idea... :P

But tell me 2 things:

- What's your iPod's format?
- What exactly is in the partition when you mount it? (As in, what do you see? Files, folders, nothing, etc...)

post the output of othis 2 commands.

heheehehehe here is a third one

The third
dmesg | grep pod

gave no result at all


cat /proc/mounts:

proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs rw,sync,nosuid,nodev 0 0


cat /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0


Greeting
Marcel

Strange... Did you connect the iPod before executing those commands?

To the OP - here is the fix for this:

http://www.gtkpod.org/TROUBLESHOOTING

I had the exact same problem with my ipod mini under SuSE 9.2. This fix corrected it.