iPod: weird errors

KuroRyu · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:41 am Post subject: iPod: weird errors

i recently got an iPod for my birthday/graduation and it was working just fine after i used windows to format it to vfat, but now it decides to bork up while i'm uploading songs... the iPod will actually jump from sda to sdb to sdc until it just doesn't show up at all.... and when i use the new 2.6.7-rc1-love1 kernel it gives me screens full of text i can't understand, something about bad eip... and freezes up my system(but that's probably just the kernel...)

it stopped jumping to sdb cuz my new HP PSC 2175 takes that up for it's media card reader(unless the ipod's not connected at startup, so it takes sda then... quite frustrating...)

anyone have any suggestions?

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it seems that certain songs in my library trigger this error... but they have been loaded into the iPod before without problem...

and it's kind of annoying how it won't let me plug the ipod in after an eject, hotplug seems to work fine, but not all the time...
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Sgaduuw · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:29 am Post subject:

have you tried an older kernel yet?
I've experienced some trouble between kernels from time to time
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KuroRyu · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:14 am Post subject:

both kernels are love-sources, so i switched to gentoo-dev-sources, fixing everything except it will still switch between sdb and sdc (or sda and sdc, if the ipod was connected at boot time) once in a while...

it will also freeze sometimes while uploading songs, hanging the system and preventing reboot...

and is there a reason why 2.2 gigs of music takes up 6.4 gigs on the ipod?
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KuroRyu · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:52 am Post subject:

emerged vanilla 2.6.6, works perfectly

but is there a way to reserve sda for the ipod and sdb for the printer so they don't mess with each other/other scsi(usb) devices?
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KuroRyu · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

*BUMP*
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RangerDude · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 301

iPOD uses fat filesystem. fat wastes alot of disk space when you have a lot of files. But that waste is nowhere near what you mention, so there must be something more.

KuroRyu · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:10 pm Post subject:

it was that the xml database that keeps track of files was getting reset, so i was basically transferring over multiple copies of my collection... so that's fixed

but is there a way to reserve specific /dev/sdx addresses for specific devices/usb ports??
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Rainmaker · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:35 am Post subject:

not with devfs

take a look at udev:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
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