One of my bosses handed my an iPod with about 15GB of music on it, so I brought it home and started working on getting it mounted on my machine.
I was hoping it was going to be as simple as mounting my camera (just plug it into a USB port, and KDE takes care of the rest).
I had an AIC-5800 firewire card lying around (Adaptec), so restarted the computer, and stuck that in.
Mandrake’s “harddrake” recognised it as an “unknown” card, but knew that it used the aic7xxx module. That was the first sign of trouble…
I connected the iPod to the card, and waited for the magic. Nothing happened.
After scouring the net for hours (I’ve been sitting here four hours trying to do this), and following lots of instructions, I’ve managed a big fat zero percent of success.
I’ll keep trying… I think it might be the firewire card, so will concentrate on that for the next four hours.