[X4U] Dead iPod

[Rick Smykla]

Possibly related to the many reports of problematic firewire ports on  
the front of the G5s?

<http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/powermacg5/topic4147.html>

Rick

On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> Good news sort of...I plugged the iPod into my Mactel at work and  
> ran the
> iPod updater and it brought it back to life except that I lost all  
> my music,
> which is mostly on my G5 so I only lost a little bit. But I plugged  
> it back
> into my G5 and it went dead again. So I did a restore again from my  
> Mactel
> for a second time and it's now working again. I'm in the process of
> transferring my music from G5 To Mactel and loading it back to  
> iPod. But now
> I have to figure out why my G5 is breaking it?
>
> Any clues? Should I delete iTunes would something be corrupt?  
> Preference
> file? Is there anything I could/should delete to start off fresh on  
> the G5?
>
> Thanx
>
> Richard
>
>
> On 19/12/06 7:12 PM, "Stroller" <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 19 Dec 2006, at 15:32, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>>> ...
>>> My iPod suddenly died yesterday ... it won’t mount and it makes an
>>> ominous clicking sound like the hard drive is bad, which I hope is
>>> not the case.
>>
>> The clicking sound of a dead hard drive is VERY distinctive - if
>> that's what it sounds like then that's surely what it is.
>>
>> On the "mini" model of iPod - and I have no doubt this is the case
>> with others - the hard-drive is easily replaced. I have no experience
>> with this save that a customer's mini died in this way & they gave it
>> to me (I think their insurance may have replaced it); the mini
>> contains a small 2gig - 8gig 1" hard-drive in "compact card" format;
>> I found that when I replaced this with a standard compact flash card
>> from my camera & plugged it in to my Mac for the first time, iTunes
>> immediately offered to update the iPod's firmware &/or format it. I
>> was then invited to synchronise a selection of my music collection.
>>
>> Stroller.
>>
>>
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> Richard Gilmore
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> University of Western Ontario
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