Ignoring ipod firmware partition?

This has been driving me nuts for awhile. I've done alot of googling, and still can't seem to find anything that works.
In Thunar, it shows my ipod's firmware partition as "Apple iPod Music Player", but when I click on it I get the following error:
Given device "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_41094144" is not a volume or drive.
I've tried to set a hal rule to ignore it, but it seems to have no effect.
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/90-user-policy.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="block.device" string="/dev/sdf1">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
According to lshal, the rule is set
volume.ignore = true (bool)
but Thunar is ignoring it? Or should I be setting something different all together to get it to ignore it? :S

You're not...
I'm using an Ipod (Nano 2Gb, grey or silver as you like... do not really know its "generation" but I guess it's one of the last as I bought it some months ago...)
However I have no problems using it... When I plug it and open Thunar, it shows 2 devices :
- Apple iPod Music Player
- IPOD (FRED) (just below the latter)
And by clicking on IPOD (FRED) it mounts it and I can use gtkpod without any problems...
Truly it's strange that it shows 2 devices, though as long as it works...
I cannot truly help you as I did not do anything particular to make it work (except adding me to the storage group for hal)...
Though I'll try to see if there is something particular somewhere that makes it work...
Hope you'll manage to get it to work...
Good luck !
EDIT :
Here is a screenshot that shows my thunar when my Ipod is plugged into the laptop.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n33/ … _scrot.png
Last edited by Origynet (2007-06-07 07:59:22)

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