jawharp
06-01-2005, 02:40 PM
heyo daddio's.
here's my dillema:
a while ago i obtained the working shell of a 2nd gen ipod. i have a 1.8" 40gig toshiba hard drive lying around and, well, i'm sure you can put 2 and 2 together.
my hope was to dd the firmware to the hard drive and have everything work out swimmingly, but alas, another problem. apparently 2nd gen ipods have different partition maps than the 3rd or 4th gen ones. every online resource for dd-ing firmware to an ipod is for 3rd gen ipods. i tried using the partition map from my 3rd gen ipod, but i get an "OK to Disconnect" every time i turn on the ipod. and osx wont recognize the ipod when connected to the firewire drive.
one thing i did notice is that on a working ipod, the partition map is 62 sectors long. pdisk creates maps that are 63 sectors long. would this prevent me from partitioning the ipod from scratch?
i tried custom pdisk partitions, and i also tried directly writing the 3rd gen map to the hd using:
fdisk -i -f /$partition map file$
doing this partitions the drive, but the map is then unreadable by pdisk.
neither method is working.
can anyone help me out?
here's my dillema:
a while ago i obtained the working shell of a 2nd gen ipod. i have a 1.8" 40gig toshiba hard drive lying around and, well, i'm sure you can put 2 and 2 together.
my hope was to dd the firmware to the hard drive and have everything work out swimmingly, but alas, another problem. apparently 2nd gen ipods have different partition maps than the 3rd or 4th gen ones. every online resource for dd-ing firmware to an ipod is for 3rd gen ipods. i tried using the partition map from my 3rd gen ipod, but i get an "OK to Disconnect" every time i turn on the ipod. and osx wont recognize the ipod when connected to the firewire drive.
one thing i did notice is that on a working ipod, the partition map is 62 sectors long. pdisk creates maps that are 63 sectors long. would this prevent me from partitioning the ipod from scratch?
i tried custom pdisk partitions, and i also tried directly writing the 3rd gen map to the hd using:
fdisk -i -f /$partition map file$
doing this partitions the drive, but the map is then unreadable by pdisk.
neither method is working.
can anyone help me out?