[CentOS] iPod on Centos 4

Fri Jul 8 17:01:40 UTC 2005
Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com>

What version of the iPod? I had a problem with mine where I had to format 
it for Windows on a Windows box before it would work.

Preston


On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jesse wrote:

>
>>>>> 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
>
>> Sorry, didn't catch that. That's really odd. My experience with CentOS 4 
>> was similar error, but recompiling the kernel with EFI disabled fixed it. 
>> What iPod is it?
>
> I agree, it's odd. It's an iPod mini 4GB. Maybe variations in the USB 
> controller are coming into play. On my searches I've seen other people 
> complain that they had USB hard drives (other than the iPod) work under older 
> 2.6.x kernels, then break in later versions, then work again in 2.6.11. So 
> maybe it's a bug in interaction with my USB controller that was later fixed, 
> but the fix wasn't backported to the RHEL4 kernel.
>
> My controller (from lspci -v):
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI 
> Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
>        Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0174
>        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 193
>        Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>        Capabilities: [58] Debug port
>
> ---
> Jesse <j at lumiere.net>
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