ITunes can't see my iPOD Music

iTUnes can'r see mhy Fifth Gen iPOD Music
Posted: Mar 25, 2007 1:12 AM
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I keep my laptop music on an external drive. Today the drive accidentally got disconnected and thus iTunes (latest version Win XP) does not recognize it. OK, simple I thought and so I went into ADVANCE and set the directory to:
G:\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music
No change in iTunes not recognizing the tunes.
I have keep iTunes Music organized and Copy to iTumes checked.
Help!

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[CODE]matthew@matthew-laptop:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 4127.628000] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access Apple iPod 1.62 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 4127.632000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 58605120 512-byte hardware sectors (30006 MB)
[ 4127.632000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 4127.632000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
[ 4127.632000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 4127.632000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 58605120 512-byte hardware sectors (30006 MB)
[ 4127.636000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 4127.636000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
[ 4127.636000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
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This is the output of dmesg after it has been connected for like 5 or 10 minutes
[CODE]matthew@matthew-laptop:~$ dmesg |tail
[ 9694.884000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
[ 9775.112000] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVEROK,SUGGESTRETRY
[ 9775.112000] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
[ 9775.112000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
[ 9853.396000] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVEROK,SUGGESTRETRY
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[ 9853.396000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
[ 9933.328000] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVEROK,SUGGESTRETRY
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Realizing it wasn't mounted tried to mount it and got this response:
[CODE]matthew@matthew-laptop:~$ sudo mount /media/sdb
[sudo] password for matthew:
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[CODE]matthew@matthew-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
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The last thing that I tried was mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb2:
[CODE]matthew@matthew-laptop:~$ mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb2
mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
]/dev/sdb2: No such file or directory[/CODE]
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