Animated spinning disk on iPod Screen

I've been having trouble with my iPod lately. The latest problem staring me in the face now is, on my iPod screen there is a spinning disc with a magnifying glass and a progress bar underneath. The progress bar does not fill up but the animated image of the disc spins on screen. This occured when I had my iPod connected to my G4 PB via Firewire and the iPod was not mounted or recognized so I reset the iPod by pressing the "menu" and play/pause" buttons on my iPod and now I get this screen. Anyone out there know what this means? Also when attempting to update iPod with iTunes it gets a fraction of the way through the update then at about 1.28 gigs or 1.50 gigs I get the error message "cannot update iPod, disk cannot be read from or written to" any insight into this issue is appreciated.
Ricky

Hey there. I had the same issue this morning so I googled the trouble and here is what I found:
"Symptom: The iPod displays the image of a spinning disk and magnifying glass.
Cure 1: Congratulations! You've managed to initiate the iPod's built-in disk scanning test. This is normally done on the first three generations of iPods by resetting the iPod and then pressing Previous, Next, Menu, and the Select button. This icon isn't available on the mini and fourth-generation iPods.
If you've initiated the scanning test and don't wish for it to complete, reset the iPod. If you'd like to complete the scan, plug the iPod into a power source as the test drains the battery quickly and takes between 15 and 20 minutes to complete."
source: http://playlistmag.com/help/2004/09/trubipod/index.php
so my disc is still spinning...we'll see

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