On 13-11-27 01:08 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
On 11/27/2013 2:58 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote:
Unfortunately at least one company produces devices that have
partitions with ID set to 0, yet these same partitions contain
data.
An Apple iPod Shuffle is such an example as shown in the following
fdisk output:
Wow, what is in there? And more hilariously, what happens when you
plug the thing into a Windows machine and try to create a partition in
the "free space"?
Also, I thought iPods don't use the USB MASS STORAGE protocol so they
don't show up as a block device at all; you have to use iTunes to
access them.
IIRC, the partition with ID = 0 contains the firmware for the Apple
iPod. The device is recognized in GNU/Linux, and files can be copied to
and from the FAT partition. However, since the iPod firmware uses a
database to keep track of songs, only songs transferred to the device
using "iPod aware" software will be seen by the iPod music player.
Amarok is an example of a native GNU/Linux application that is iPod aware.
IMHO Apple's choice of using an ID of zero for the firmware partition is
a poor decision. With that being said, these devices with this strange
ID setting do exist in the real world.
Curtis
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