Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:42:01 +0300 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iPod mini + ASUS P3B-F motherboard + FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE Message-ID: <429DF369.3060801@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <429B87D9.4000206@raad.tartu.ee> References: <429B87D9.4000206@raad.tartu.ee>
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I wrote: > Is anyone successfully using this mix of old and new technology? I'm > trying to, but I'm not succeeding. > > The on-board USB ports on this machine are USB1.1, which, while not > "officially" supported by Apple, should work with iPod according to many > reports on the Net. I do understand that it would be very slow, though. > > The very first time I took the iPod out of the package and connected it > to my PC, it was recognized successfully: > > May 30 20:08:32 premium kernel: umass0: Apple iPod mini, rev 2.00/0.01, > addr 2 > May 30 20:12:52 premium kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > May 30 20:12:52 premium kernel: da0: <Apple iPod 1.62> Removable Direct > Access SCSI-0 device > > Note, however, that there's a 4 minute time gap between umass0 and da0 > lines. > > Since my machine doesn't have any support for reading the HFS (or is it > HFS+?) file system which is what the iPod has out of the box, I couldn't > however mount any slices from da0. I tried disconnecting and > re-connecting the iPod a few times and now the umass0 line appears but > the da0 line doesn't appear at all, even after waiting for 40 minutes. > > I went to a Windows PC with USB2 ports and connected the iPod to that. > It was recognized immediately and re-formatted as FAT32. Back to my > FreeBSD PC and there's no change - when plugging in the iPod, the umass0 > line appears in dmesg, but the da0 line doesn't. > > What would be the best course of action to get the iPod talking to my > FreeBSD box? > - install an add-on USB 2.0 card ? > - update the PC-s BIOS to latest version (there is a newer version than > the one I'm running now)? > - update to latest -STABLE (current checkout is from May 10)? > - wipe FreeBSD and install Windows? (just kidding!!!) > - something else? I have now tried all the suggestions above, except installing Windows or doing "something else", and I still haven't gotten any further. The most irritating thing is that if I boot my PC with Knoppix 3.7 CD, I can successfully mount the iPod as /dev/sda2. Some more googling has revealed that similar problems have been reported with OpenBSD and NetBSD, but no solution seems to exist: http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive2/misc/200501/msg00149.html http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2004/09/14/0000.html One last resort I can think of is FireWire. But for that I would need to get a FireWire adapter (any recommendations?) and iPod dock connector to FireWire cable. Both ca 20 EUR. And I'm still not sure it would work. I'm planning to file a PR on this. The kernel with USB_DEBUG is being built as I type. But for now it looks like FreeBSD users would do well to steer clear of the 2nd generation iPod mini. --- ... Work is for people who don't know how to fish.
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