John Hunt wrote:
> For my birthday, Laura my girlfriend got me an iPod shuffle 2nd
> generation thing with the clip on it.
>
> Now, it almost works absolutely fine, except I mysteriously lost a
> load of songs from it yesterday. I put this down to it auto-mounting
> with the wrong character set.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu Edgy, so I havn't had to alter anything in my fstab.
> I believe it's all being handled by Gnome's HAL. Therefore, my
> questions are:
>
> 1. How is this actually working? I'm just guessing at the moment. I'd
> also like to know how it's detecting it's an ipod and coming up with
> the nice icon etc.
> 2. How can I change the charset mount option?
>
> I'd like to keep doing things the HAL way if possible as I think it
> seems like the path of least resistance.
>
> Below is some dmesg output:
> [17179645.416000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
> and address 7
> [17179645.548000] usb 4-4: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
> [17179645.672000] usbcore: registered new driver libusual
> [17179645.752000] SCSI subsystem initialized
> [17179645.756000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> [17179645.756000] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> [17179645.756000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> [17179645.756000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
> [17179645.756000] usb-storage: device found at 7
> [17179645.756000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> [17179650.756000] usb-storage: device scan complete
> [17179650.756000] Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 2.70
> [17179650.756000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI
> SCSI revision: 02
> [17179650.800000] SCSI device sda: 495616 2048-byte hdwr sectors (1015 MB)
> [17179650.800000] sda: Write Protect is off
> [17179650.800000] sda: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
> [17179650.800000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> [17179650.800000] SCSI device sda: 495616 2048-byte hdwr sectors (1015 MB)
> [17179650.804000] sda: Write Protect is off
> [17179650.804000] sda: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
> [17179650.804000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> [17179650.804000] sda: unknown partition table
> [17179650.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> [17179650.868000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> [17179651.436000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT
> filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
>
> 3. Also, when I was running under the Xen kernel and I unmounted the
> device, my computer went funny...like the clock speed had been chopped
> in half or something. top and dmesg showed nothing strange. Any ideas?
>
> Linux continues to mysterise me!
>
Sorry, can't help with the actual question, but it reminded me that when
one of my colleague's had a hard drive failure in his laptop he managed
to format his iPod while reinstalling Windows... he did think it
slightly odd that his 40GB HDD was only showing up as being 2GB :)
At a guess, the iPod identifies itself as such (on Windows plugging one
in automatically launches iTunes)
James
