[Bug-gnupod] Problem Mounting HFS+ Ipod

[tom]

I just received a new Mac-formatted iPod yesterday, and I can't seem to
mount it on my system. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

To configure my system, I followed the instructions on this page:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/gnupod.html

I have the firewire modules compiled and loaded along with the hfs and
hfsplus modules. Also, I'm using kernel 2.6.8-r3.

I booted my machine with the iPod plugged into the firewire port. Here's
what I got from dmesg:

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ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
  Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod              Rev: 1.63
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sda: Spinning up disk......<6>eth1: DSPCFG accepted after 0 usec.
.ready
SCSI device sda: 39063024 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 04 00 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0

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I then tried to mount my iPod using the following command, and I got the
following error:

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homer dev # mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod
mount: special device /dev/sda3 does not exist

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I then ensured that the partition existed. I tried to read it via fdisk,
but it couldn't read the hfsplus partitions. I was able to look at it
using parted, however, and I got the following results:

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homer dev # parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 1.6.6
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See
the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc is 19073/64/32.  Therefore,
cylinder 1024 ends at
1023.999M.
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 0.000-19073.742
megabytes
Disk label type: mac
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.000      0.030              partition map
2          0.031     32.030              firmware
3         32.031  19073.741              disk
(parted)

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I then found out that the proper /dev/sd* partitions aren't being created.
 DevFS didn't create them for some reason.

I thought that there might be a partitioning problem, so I compiled in
"Mac-Style Parition Support" into my kernel.  This didn't seem to help.

I'm clueless as to what's wrong. Does anyone else have a clue?

Thanks in advance!

Tom Purl