[Techtalk] iPod with Linux - again

[David Sumbler]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Clarke wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:24:26AM +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
>
> > Usually when I put the iPod into its dock, (which is connected to the
> > firewire card on my FC1 box), and always when I try to mount it on
> > /mnt/ipod, I get messages such as:
> >
> > sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
>
> If you try to mount it a second time, does it then work?

No - I get the same result.

> > Also, what would a suitable entry in /etc/fstab be?
>
>     [johnc at dropbear ~]$ grep ipod /etc/fstab
>     /dev/sda2         /mnt/ipod           auto    noauto,user,nosuid  0 0

OK, that's what I had put, except I hadn't included 'nosuid'.

And I assume (because of the error messages) that mine should be
/dev/sda.  But then, I get the same error messages if I try "cat
/dev/sda", "cat /dev/sda1", "cat /dev/sda2" etc.  So how do I find out
which device I should actually be looking at?

Thanks for your help.

David

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