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iPod hard drive wiped; need help getting it recognized
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I've been having iPod problems of my own. My Mac crashed during an 5gb iPod firmware update and I had to force restart the whole system (the firmware update process refused to be kill-ed). As you might imagine, the iPod hasn't been in good shape since. Whenever I plug it in, I get messages like the following in /var/log/system.log:
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook mach_kernel: disk1s3: I/O error.
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook mach_kernel: disk1s3: media is not present.
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook mach_kernel: disk1s3: media is not present.
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook /sbin/autodiskmount[193]: Some fsck failed!
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook /sbin/autodiskmount[193]: disk1s3 hfs no yes xxxxx's iPod [not mounted]
Sometimes when I try to force the iPod to restart (holding menu+play) I get a message from the Finder saying that an attempt was made to mount an uninitialized disk.
I'm content that my iPod's hard drive is wiped, and I feel fairly comfortable with recreating the three necessary partitions and loading a dump of the firmware from a friend's 5gb iPod. The problem is that I can't even access /dev/disk1, which should correspond to the iPod's hard drive, from something like pdisk. Anyone have any ideas as to how to somehow force the system to recognize the iPod device, even if it's just an empty hard drive?
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Originally posted by ElLeon0:
I've been having iPod problems of my own. My Mac crashed during an 5gb iPod firmware update and I had to force restart the whole system (the firmware update process refused to be kill-ed). As you might imagine, the iPod hasn't been in good shape since. Whenever I plug it in, I get messages like the following in /var/log/system.log:
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook mach_kernel: disk1s3: I/O error.
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook mach_kernel: disk1s3: media is not present.
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook mach_kernel: disk1s3: media is not present.
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook /sbin/autodiskmount[193]: Some fsck failed!
Sep 22 23:19:54 dabook /sbin/autodiskmount[193]: disk1s3 hfs no yes xxxxx's iPod [not mounted]
Sometimes when I try to force the iPod to restart (holding menu+play) I get a message from the Finder saying that an attempt was made to mount an uninitialized disk.
I'm content that my iPod's hard drive is wiped, and I feel fairly comfortable with recreating the three necessary partitions and loading a dump of the firmware from a friend's 5gb iPod. The problem is that I can't even access /dev/disk1, which should correspond to the iPod's hard drive, from something like pdisk. Anyone have any ideas as to how to somehow force the system to recognize the iPod device, even if it's just an empty hard drive?
Why are you trying to manually restore it? I think the firmware restore/update program shouldbe able to do that for you.
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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When I moved my ipod over from windows I was a little stupid and wiped out the hard drive. I just used the updater and let it fix it. You shouldn't need to wipe out the drive manually, just use the updater to wupe it out and reinstall the firmware.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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You can plug the ipod in, wait a bit while the system finds it and then go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
Format the hard drive in one partition using Mac OS Extended.
Run Disk Warrior or Drive 10 if you want to now.
Next it should appear as a firewire drive only in the finder. Now run the 1.3 updater and you should be able to see it in iTunes after you fallow the instructions.
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