On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 17:17 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 19:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:26 -0700, Sean Nelson wrote: > > > Hello, I've never owned an Ipod before, but a friend of mine recently > > > gave me one as a present. It's a 8gig video Nano. I downloaded gtkpod > > > and installed it, and it reads the Ipod fine. I copied all of my files > > > onto my hard drive with it without a problem, but when I tried to > > > delete music off of it and add new files it wouldn't save the changes. > > > I got an error saying that is "unable to read my firewire id." I run > > > Fedora 7 (it works fine, and I've never cared enough to change). It's > > > probably something very simple to fix this problem, but I can't seem > > > to figure it out. Any thoughts? > > > > I'm confused. I thought Apple ditched Firewire for iPods several years > > ago and everything was now USB. My very first iPod had FW (I even bought > > a FW card for my machine) but the later ones don't. > ---- > they sort of did - their latest version of firmware on my 5th Gen won't > let me use Firewire for anything but charging. > > I gathered since he said he was able to move files onto his iPod via > Firewire, that his iPod hasn't reached that stage yet (where only USB > can be used to move files). It sort of sucks because the firewire is > faster than USB. He said it's an 8GB Nano, which is fairly recent. And I agree about Firewire, not so much the speed nowadays but the much lower cpu impact compared to USB because it does genuine DMA. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
