Re: iPod no longer recognized on Windows 2000, arg!
"Gordon Harris" <[email protected]>
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It sounds as though the Mac performed a firmware update without notifying you...which seems really, really unlikely. That "progress bar" is what one usually sees after performing a firmware upgrade. I wonder if the iPod has a facility to automatically restore the firmware from the copy on the "unallocated" partition if it thinks that its NVRAM firmware image has become corrupt? With all the funky stuff that iPods get plugged into and the various static charge hits they have to be able to survive (mine gets a static charge workout every time it gets plugged into the cassette tape adapter in my car) this seems like a good idea. Another point on the Apple designers' scorecard, IMHO. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jon Freeland Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 10:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ephpod] Re: iPod no longer recognized on Windows 2000, arg! On a slightly related note... I recently had trouble with my Windows iPod. I plug it into my friend's G4 to grab a large aiff file from him (a concert) so I can take it home and master it. On my way home in the car, the iPod starts skipping all the tracks... like, it tries to play them but can't. It just keeps cycling through. I get home and mount the iPod and it has extra folders on it, like .DS_Store and .Trashes from OS X. I can't read the song database... so I try to restore it but I get a "disk write failure" and the updater freezes. Now I can't mount the damn thing at all. So I do a hard reset and then I get the Apple logo... and then this progress bar I hadn't seen before. Once it finishes whatever it was doing, I plug it back into the dock and finally... it works. So just a word of caution, be careful plugging into Macs! ------------------------------------------------------ ephPod Mailing List FAQ and HomePage http://www.ephpod.com mailto:[email protected] to susbcribe mailto:[email protected] to unsusbcribe mailto:[email protected] the mailing-list itself ------------------------------------------------------ ephPod Mailing List FAQ and HomePage http://www.ephpod.com mailto:[email protected] to susbcribe mailto:[email protected] to unsusbcribe mailto:[email protected] the mailing-list itself