Friday, December 3, 2010

Setting firewireid of Ipod manually

First, you need to get your
firewire id manually. To do that, run "sudo lsusb -v | grep -i Serial" (without
the "") with your iPod plugged in, this should print a 16 character long string
like 00A1234567891231. Once you have that number, create/edit
/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo (if your iPod is mounted at /mnt/ipod).
Add to that file the line below:
FirewireGuid: 0xffffffffffffffff
(replace ffffffffffffffff with the string you obtained at the previous step)
Save that file, and you should be all set.