[TriLUG] Fried iPod

[Randy Barlow]

So I was playing with Banshee last night to see how well it worked with 
my video iPod, and everything was going well until I "Ejected" my iPod.  
Banshee gave me an error (can't remember what it was honestly) and then 
my iPod just continually reboots but never comes back on (I put it into 
disk mode to stop it from doing this though...)

So I think it somehow damaged the iPod's file system (was formatted 
FAT32 by a Windowz machine).  But now I've got some options, and wanted 
to get advice.  Since I have this fried iPod, I have the option of 
restoring it with either the Windows FAT32 file system or the Apple (HFS 
Plus).  The FAT32 file system seemed to have some problems with some of 
the large files I was trying to store on my iPod, and I was wondering if 
I would do better with the HFS Plus FS in Linux (as in, does the Linux 
kernel read it with a built in module, or do I need to go a googling?)

I had also considered putting Linux on the iPod, but that project 
doesn't seem to support this generation of iPod yet...  Suggestions?

R