EFI is a factor. I had this problem with an iPod Mini and had to recompile
the kernel with that flag turned off.
Preston
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Jesse wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble getting my iPod working under Centos 4. I was hoping
> someone else using their iPod with Centos 4 could shed some light on this.
>
> When I attach my iPod via USB, I get these messages:
> 19:36:44 brahma kernel: usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using address 2
> 19:36:45 brahma kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> 19:36:45 brahma kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> 19:37:35 brahma kernel: usb 1-8: reset high speed USB device using address 2
> 19:37:51 brahma kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error
> recovery: host 2 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
>
> I had no problems getting my iPod to work under Centos 3 (2.4.x kernel), once
> I had recompiled without the EFI partition option. In this case I don't think
> EFI is a factor though, as the device isn't even making it to the partition
> scanning stage.
>
> I tried using just the slower uhci_hcd but got the same results. Then I tried
> using the latest FC3 kernel (2.6.11-1.35_FC3), and surprise, the iPod mounts
> (with ehci) without any problems.
>
> Obviously I'd prefer to run the RHEL/Centos kernel though, even if it
> requires a small patch. At least then I know what's changed.
>
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