ipod, itunes and external firewire drive problem.

Article View: uk.comp.sys.mac

Article #47

#47

From: moll
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:36

31 lines
2496 bytes

Hello all,

Problem: itunes doesn't recognize an iPod daisychained to an external
firewire drive.

I've got a biggish music collection housed on an external firewire drive
(Lacie 200gb). My powerbook sees it no problem.
I also have a 20gb iPod.
My powerbook sees that no problem, IF it is plugged directly into the
Mac's firewire port.

The problem of course is I need to access  both at the same time.
Theoretically I should be able to plug the drive into the Mac and the iPod
into the drive - daisychaining. The trouble is that although both get
mounted on the desktop,and botha re accessible to the finder, iTunes
doesn't recognize that an iPod is attached, so  it remains inaccessible.

It's not a power problem because a) the Lacie drive is powered and b) both
drives ARE readable and writeable via finder.

So it must be a bug in iTUnes.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix it?

I've tried reinstalilng iPod software ... no joy.

I suppose I could try Audion, but I'd rather stick with iTunes if poss.

regards

m

Technical Details

Message-ID: <pan.2003.10.10.07.36.27.810139@hotmail.com>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp.abs.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!freenews.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: fb802,743179c2f99093a6,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidfb802,public
X-Google-Thread: fc20b,743179c2f99093a6,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidfc20b,public
X-Google-Thread: f8d8e,743179c2f99093a6,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidf8d8e,public
X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,743179c2f99093a6,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-10 00:40:06 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp.abs.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!freenews.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail
From: "moll" <max@hotmail.com>
Subject: ipod, itunes and external firewire drive problem.
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:36:27 +0800
User-Agent: Pan/0.13.3 (That cat's something I can't explain)
Message-ID: <pan.2003.10.10.07.36.27.810139@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac,aus.computers.mac,alt.comp.os.mac
Followup-To: uk.comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac,aus.computers.mac,alt.comp.os.mac
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 31
NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.59.113.147
X-Trace: 1065771387 freenews.iinet.net.au 23585 203.59.113.147