ipod mini errors

[thesource]

Hello all. I managed to get gtkpod installed and looks great. I went to connect the Ipod I get errors. You will see that it recognizes it. Do I have to update something in fedora, current kernel 667?

scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sda: Spinning up disk.....ready
SCSI device sda: 7999488 512-byte hdwr sectors (4096 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda:end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 7999480
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 999935
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 7999480
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 999935
sda1 sda2
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 11
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 80191
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 40064
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 40065
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 40066

[tejas]

Did you try directly mounting it?

I think your ipod [according to what is given],
either has the address /dev/sda or /dev/sda1,
so try directly mounting it

# mount /dev/sda /mnt/ipod

[AndyGreen]

Hm... an optimist might choose to belive the IO errors in the log could be due to some garbage partition information directing Linux to nonexistant start sectors. If you mount it and keep getting such errors...

[tejas]

At least the last 3 lines of the errors looked familiar to me.

I have a tiny USB hub which keeps giving me that error if I leave it plugged in on boot or shutdown.

Anyway, It worked like a charm. Formatting could not remove those errors for me. So I ignored them

Or maybe it was bad sector, not buffer I/O. Anyway, if It works with an error that isn't too fatal, ignore it

Still, if it a sda device, implies linux thinks it is a standard SATA drive

[AndyGreen]

sd* == SCSI, not SATA. USB Mass Storage class driver maps the devices on to fake SCSI devices. Do SATA drives also appear as sd*? (I do not yet have any) If so it is because the driver is also faking them up as SCSI.

[tejas]

oops!

I meant SCSI.

I've never had a SATA drive either, but I think, by coincidence, it does show up as an sd*, or so I've remembered reading somewhere. I guess you are right though, everything pretends to be a SCSI controller.