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Mounting an iPod on Solaris

This worked for me.... I'm using Solaris 11 / Nevada built from build 36

# uname -a
SunOS dhcp-egmp02-36-140 5.11 snv_36 i86pc i386 i86pc

I plug in my Ipod to the usb port (I've not tried it on Firewire) of my laptop. I type devfsadm at the root prompt

# devfsadm
# 

I then use rmformat -l to see if the device is recognised

# rmformat -l
Looking for devices...
     1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
        Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2
        Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@1/sd@0,0
        Connected Device: TOSHIBA  DVD-ROM SD-C2612 1F27
        Device Type: DVD Reader
        Bus: IDE
        Size: 
        Label: 
        Access permissions: 
     2. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2
        Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci10cf,11ab@1d,7/storage@1/disk@0,0
        Connected Device: Apple    iPod             1.53
        Device Type: Removable
        Bus: USB
        Size: 19.1 GB
        Label: 
        Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
     3. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0p0
        Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci10cf,11ab@1d,7/storage@1/disk@0,0
        Connected Device: Apple    iPod             1.53
        Device Type: Removable
        Bus: USB
        Size: 19.1 GB
        Label: 
        Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.

Now, since the Ipod is formatted as PCFS I need to do the following magic command.

# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c5t0d0p0:c /a

I can now see the iPod disk

# cd /a
# ls
Calendars     Contacts      iPod_Control  Notes

And I can make a file

# timex mkfile 100m ipod-disk1-100m

real     1:15.47
user        0.01
sys         5.64

# ls -l
total 204832
drwxrwxrwx   1 root     root        4096 Jan  1  1970 Calendars
drwxrwxrwx   1 root     root        4096 Jan  1  1970 Contacts
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     root     104857600 Mar 31 11:53 ipod-disk1-100m
drwxrwxrwx   1 root     root        4096 Jan  1  1970 iPod_Control
drwxrwxrwx   1 root     root        4096 Jan  1  1970 Notes
# 

Cool!

( Mar 31 2006, 11:54:38 AM BST ) Permalink Comments [3]