Talk:HARDWARE iPod
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[edit] Video
Does anything special need to be done to get gtkpod to work and sync video?
- Ensure that the video file extention is .mov
[edit] Disconnected!
What happens if I disconnect the iPOD from my box without unmounting & ejecting it ?? Any chances to reset the system ? Data loss ? -- XeRoc
I have never had any problems removing the iPod without the extra steps described in the guide. Using the eject command merely tells the iPod it's been kicked from the system which shouldn't matter and for sure doesn't matter if it was mounted using the "sync" flag. Once the iPod is unmounted there shouldn't be any further data transfers to its harddrive. The statement about removing the sbp2 module is, in my opinion, stupid. I have several firewire devices connected and if I had to unload that module just to be able to remove the iPod I would never have gotten the iPod. The sbp2 module keeps track of what devices are plugged in, if it needs to be unloaded to prevent problems then the problem is in sbp2. I've never unloaded this module nor would I. --Matthew.Townsend
[edit] Hal, DBus and Gnome-Volume-Manager
It might be worth adding some discussion of these services. I believe that the only deviation from the existing howto in such a case is that no addition to the fstab is necessary, or even advisable, and that gtkpod's preferences need to be edited to reflect the mount point that g-v-m uses. By default that mount point will be /media/[some volume name associated with your ipod] -- in my case it is /media/IPOD. I'm not going to make the change without someone else seconding it, as I have only very recently set this up myself, and don't want to reccomend it without more experiance. For example, it would be nice to know how to make g-v-m use the sync option when mounting the ipod -- I haven't worked on that issue yet. Also, has anyone used ivman to automount their ipod? Do you need to do anything special? Mazirian 15:42, 1 Apr 2005 (GMT).
[edit] Brand New Ipod
Is there any special consideration for using gtkpod with a brand new ipod that iTunes has never touched? I asked gtkpod to make the ipod directories, which it did; but it kept tripping up on the fact that there was no database file. Is there some way to get gtkpod to make the initial database file and install it on the ipod? Mazirian 15:42, 1 Apr 2005 (GMT).
After you create the iPod directories in gtkpod, upload a song to the iPod and then use the "sync" function in gtkpod. That should write to the iTunesDB file accordingly.--Tosk
[edit] fstab options
According to man mount:
- user
- Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. The name of the mounting
- user is written to mtab so that he can unmount the file system again.
- This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overrid-
- den by subsequent options, as in the option line user,exec,dev,suid).
Meaning that nosuid and nodev are redundant. Any arguments against removing these from the page's fstab? --- Dan
[edit] Kernel Options
I found I also needed to enable:
- File systems
- Partition Types
- Advanced partition selection (PARTITION_ADVANCED [=y])
- Partition Types
Otherwise I would get
SCSI device sda: 7999487 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table
and be unable to mount anything (2.6.13).
- comment
I have that option set, and I still get that error message. What other options do you have set?
[edit] UTF-8
On a complete UTF-8/Unicode enabled system I can imagine a lot of music files have special characters in both the filename and the tag (think of German names for for example Rammstein, Motörhead, etc...). Now what is described here is complicated and very vague. Is there any way to just transparently put UTF-8 encoded files to the iPod? I just want to put the music on the iPod easily and at this moment I need like half an hour to put just SOME files on it. --T0maz 08:34, 11 April 2006 (GMT)
