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Ste_Sa

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Registered: 2025-07-17

Posts: 2

Firewire / iPod issues

Running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma DE on a 2013 Macbook Pro, which has one Firewire port. I also have a much loved 2nd gen iPod, which I've been trying to get to work with it. Whilst Arch Linux sees the Firewire port ok, it doesn't detect when the iPod is plugged in. The iPod is seen ok when I boot into macOS on the same computer. The iPod is formatted as macOS extended (with journalling turned off, via diskutils on macOS), and I have hfsprogs installed on the Arch side. I've run disk first aid in macOS on the iPod, and doesn't detect errors.

Any ideas?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,147

Re: Firewire / iPod issues

iPods are a PITA to handle no matter how you shape it but what exactly does "not show up" mean? Did you check dmesg/check whether you can mount the potential device node with hfsprogs directly? I doubt good integration generally exists there with tools like udisks and the like (though cursory checking suggests some support should be there) Run a

sudo dmesg -W

then plug the ipod in, what messages do you get?