iPod
Whoote… and the iPod arrives. With a remote control. Pity its all Firewire based, and the current Fedora kernel has that in a state of limbo. It says its “Windows compatible”, but yeah, it comes with a silly dongle that’s still Firewire, but PC-styled. USB dongles are additional costs. In the excitement (I have an exam in a couple of hours), I just let OS X handle things, so soon, I’ll have to rely on HFS+ read/write works well on Linux too :)
I’m using mine on Linux (on PPC) with firewire and HFS+ without a problem!
am working on a thing that’ll let the “do not disconnect” sign go away when you unmount the filesystem :)
gtkpod rocks.
where does the notion that firewire=mac, usb=windows/pc come from? at least in germany, more or less all “ready to run” pc packages from the discounters have both…
Well, Firewire isn’t common on PCs – for instance, I only have one PC with Firewire. All other relatively new boxes lack Firewire… so I presume PC means USB2 at least :P
in the fedora core 1 world i had somewhat dependable ipod use – with the rescan-scsi-bus.sh business. in the fedora core 2 world i have had nothing but misery – with and without the firewire enabled kernels…with and without the usb adapter. basically seems to be a roll of the dice whether i will get back ‘/dev/sda2 is not a block device’ when i mount…even after the dmesg output identifies the ipod. any advice? i’m near giving up. if so, reply here, the email address i provided is clearly fake
I’m sure I’d look into playing with it… Incidentally, you’re with HFS+ or vfat?
where does the notion that firewire=mac, usb=windows/pc come from? at least in germany, more or less all “ready to run” pc packages from the discounters have both…