iPod oddity
Ok, got me a 30 Gb Video iPod just before the course that took me away
to Brighton. Finally this weekend I got a chance to set it up! Not the
first iPod I've used, but I'm still staggered by how small and thin
they are.
So I install the iPod driver and update the iTunes software on my
Windows machine (where I store copies all of my CDs) and plugged it in.
After some thought, the Windows machine tells me that it can see a
faulty USB device. iPod doesn't do anything; no charging indicator or
anything else.
*grumble*
After some fiddling and getting nowhere, I plugged it into my iBook.
Nothing on the computer or the iPod again. System Profiler doesn't see
anything attached, let alone iTunes or the iPod updater software
finding it. "Maybe I've got a dud" I think to myself, and try a
different USB lead.
Same result on both computers with a known good USB adapter lead.
Out of desperation, knowing that it isn't supported now, I plug in a
Firewire-to-iPod cable on the ibook. Finally, some indication from the
iPod that I'm here; it tells me in no uncertain terms that I'm being a
bad boy and doing unsupported things!
Plug it into the windows machine with USB again - works perfectly and
has done through several cycles of being removed and replaced.
Lovely eh?