iPod...

[Blake Skinner]

Not to sure. I went through the iPod and under the /iPod_Control folder 
(in root of iPod, invisible) there were 3 folders: Device, Music and 
iTunes. Music's use is fairly straightforward, however I'm not sure 
about the other folders. Here is the output from ls:

Device/:
total 16
drwxrwxrwx  4 malice  unknown    92 Jun  9 11:39 .
drwxrwxrwx  5 malice  unknown   126 Jun  8 18:13 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 malice  unknown  2828 Jun  9 11:39 Preferences
-rwxrwxrwx  1 malice  unknown   287 Jun  9 11:39 SysInfo

iTunes/:
total 11584
drwxrwxrwx  8 malice  unknown      228 Jun  9 16:54 .
drwxrwxrwx  5 malice  unknown      126 Jun  8 18:13 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 malice  unknown     1536 Jun  9 16:54 DeviceInfo
-rwxrwxrwx  1 malice  unknown  5242880 Jun  8 18:13 iTunesControl
-rwxrwxrwx  1 malice  unknown   662764 Jun  9 11:39 iTunesDB
-rwxrwxrwx  1 malice  unknown    13040 Jun  9 13:19 iTunesEQPresets
-rwxrwxrwx  1 malice  unknown        0 Jun  8 18:13 iTunesPlaylists
-rwxrwxrwx  1 malice  unknown       36 Jun  9 16:54 iTunesPrefs

On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 04:53  PM, wmkruse wrote:

> Is it possible to obtain and reinstall the mp3 player on the iPod after
> it has been reformatted?  Or is it possible the iPod mp3 player is in
> the firmware?  Otherwise you would end up with an expensive firewire
> hard drive?