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    Ipod won't mount

    I did a search for iPod won't mount on this forum and found nothing, and Googled it and nothing seemed to work for me.
    The problem is kind of weird because I had the exact same model iPod about 10 months ago and it broke. I replaced it (same iPod: 30g iPod photo). In between the first one failing and my replacing it, I upgraded to Dapper Drake.
    Now, I plug it in and it shows up as a USB drive. When I try to double-click to open it or right click and go to "mount" it says:

    "Could not mount device.
    The reported error was:
    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
    missing codepage or other error
    In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
    dmesg | tail or so"

    Typing "dmesg | tail" at the command prompt yields the following results:

    "[17180661.948000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
    [17180661.948000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
    [17180782.848000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
    [17180782.848000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
    [17180782.880000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
    [17180782.880000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
    [17182597.964000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
    [17182597.964000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
    [17182597.996000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
    [17182597.996000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda."

    Again, everything used to work fine.
    Thanks in advance--without everyone on this board's help I'd be completely lost!

    I put this in Hardware because I thought it could be but unfortunately, I'm not absolutely positive at this point so I apologize if it was placed inappropriately.
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    Re: Ipod won't mount

    Do you have a copy of your Breezy /etc/fstab file? do you, at least remember what it said? It certainly appears that the ipod is not being recognized as a VFAT memory device, but I have no idea what kind of file system an ipod uses, if you know, we can work with that information. Meanwhile, while it's probably a good idea to look at /dev/disk/by-id/ while the ipod is plugged in and make a note of what it's called so that you can make an entry for it in /etc/fstab once you learn what kind of file system it has.
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      Re: Ipod won't mount

      was the previous ipod "mac formatted" or "pc formatted"? I think that there are two versions of the little thang that are based on different filesystems (FS). if you had a PC version before, that probably ran on fat32. i'm not sure what fs the mac ones use, but it would not suprise me if they were on some other fs that the usb auto-mount daemon doesn't recognize/is not able to auto-mount.

      hmm...
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        Re: Ipod won't mount

        Actually, yes. Both should be FAT file systems because both were originally used on a PC. I've even reformatted the iPod and restored factory default settings and then made sure that a PC was able to recognize it, which it was. Thanks for the reply!
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          Re: Ipod won't mount

          Here is my fstab file:

          # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
          #
          # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
          proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
          /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
          /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
          /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
          /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
          /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
          /dev/sda /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

          My iPod is the /dev/sda device.
          askrieger, according to my previous experience as well as various sources on the web a mac formatted iPod would be hfs+ file system, with a Windows formatted iPod would be formatted with FAT32.
          With that being said, my iPod was formatted on a Windows box and was recognized fine. Everything was fine on the iPod when it was hooked up to my dad's notebook. I appreciate you taking your time to help me out!


          The three entries in "/dev/disk/by-id/" for my iPod are as follows:

          usb-Apple_iPod_000A2700142496C0 (Says it's a link to .../.../sda)
          usb-Apple_iPod_000A2700142496C0-part1 (Says it's a link to .../.../sda1)
          usb-Apple_iPod_000A2700142496C0-part2 (Says it's a link to .../.../sda2)
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            Re: Ipod won't mount

            If you never plug anything else into your usb bus other than the ipod, your current fstab file is almost fine. The first change I would make would be to change the filesystem from auto to vfat, even though it's guessing vfat. The other thing I would do would be to mount the two partitions on the iPod separately,

            So if the ipod is the only thing you mount on the usb bus i would replace the ipod entry with these two:
            Code:
            /dev/sda1  /media/ipod1 vfat rw,user,noauto  0  0
/dev/sda2  /media/ipod2 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
            If you sometimes plug other things into you usb bus, you must replace the references to "/dev/sda1" and "/dev/sda2" with "/dev//disk/by-id/usb-Apple_iPod_000A2700142496C0-part1" and "/dev/disk/by-id/...-part2", respectively. That way, if the iPod is ever the second thing plugged in, Linux won't get confused the the having the iPod show up on sdb instead of sda.

            Please let us know if this works.
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              Re: Ipod won't mount

              If your Ipod is /dev/sda, you should only need to mount /dev/sda2; this is where music and files are stored. /dev/sda1 is for the OS that runs on the ipod.
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                Re: Ipod won't mount

                I went ahead and edited my fstab file as you suggested in the code box above. As soon as I saved the fstab file changes, I got a message that said a new medium was detected and I chose to open it.
                This is the error message I got:

                Could not mount device.
                The reported error was:
                mount: mount point /media/ipod1 does not exist

                I get the same message when I try to mount /media/sda2
                Not sure what's going on at this point.
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                  Re: Ipod won't mount

                  Did you just edit the fstab or did you create the mount points as well? If you didn't create the mount points, or don't know what I'm talking about, type this into a konsole window:
                  sudo mkdir /media/ipod1
                  sudo mkdir /media/ipod2

                  Then try again. You should be fine now.

                  D1SxEyes
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                    Re: Ipod won't mount

                    @convulsia: Arggh! My bad! D15xEyes is absolutely correct. I forgot to include that step. Sorry.
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