[CentOS] iPod on Centos 4

Preston Crawford me at prestoncrawford.com
Thu Jul 7 23:46:12 UTC 2005



EFI is a factor. I had this problem with an iPod Mini and had to recompile 
the kernel with that flag turned off.

Preston

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Jesse wrote:

>
> I'm having trouble getting my iPod working under Centos 4. I was hoping 
> someone else using their iPod with Centos 4 could shed some light on this.
>
> When I attach my iPod via USB, I get these messages:
> 19:36:44 brahma kernel: usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using address 2
> 19:36:45 brahma kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> 19:36:45 brahma kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> 19:37:35 brahma kernel: usb 1-8: reset high speed USB device using address 2
> 19:37:51 brahma kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error 
> recovery: host 2 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
>
> I had no problems getting my iPod to work under Centos 3 (2.4.x kernel), once 
> I had recompiled without the EFI partition option. In this case I don't think 
> EFI is a factor though, as the device isn't even making it to the partition 
> scanning stage.
>
> I tried using just the slower uhci_hcd but got the same results. Then I tried 
> using the latest FC3 kernel (2.6.11-1.35_FC3), and surprise, the iPod mounts 
> (with ehci) without any problems.
>
> Obviously I'd prefer to run the RHEL/Centos kernel though, even if it 
> requires a small patch. At least then I know what's changed.
>
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