Shuffle - Not Detected ?

are u shure that the ips don't work with os 9??
itunes 4.8 will not work with os 9.
the ipod update will not work with os 9.
can i install os x on a ibook g3?

Positive it doesn't work with OS 9.x

I believe you can install OS X on a G3 iBook, although I would go to the support section here for Tiger and check to be sure.

I guess i'm glad i'm not the only one with this problem 🙂

I appreciated your 4-step solution... but... the orange light never stops blinking on the iPs... so, i never get the option of selecting it to be re-set. it never gets recognized by anything. i think i'm stuck with the "call Apple" option.

thanks for all of the advice anyway !!!

I just finished chatting with Apple Support. I had the same problem, but it is fixed now. Here are the steps we took:

1. Launched Applications/Utilities/System Profiler and found the ipod under one of the USB hubs
2. Launched Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
3. Selected the ipod in list of disks - in my case it was "992.4 MB Apple iPod Media"
4. Selected the partition tab
5. Set the Volume Scheme to 1 partition
6. Set the Format to MS-DOS File System
7. Clicked partition - when it finished, iTunes started up and asked to setup the ipod. Clicked cancel.
8. Ran Applications/Utilities/iPod Software updater/iPod Updater 2005-03-23
9. Chose to restore - when it finished, iTunes started up again. This time I was able to set up and all was back to normal.

For some reason the iPod's flash drive was unable to read the partition tables. It had no drive volume and was unusable. Hopefully this will also work for some of you.

wow, a long thread...

I was having all the same problems as listed above, including that my pbook would recognize the shuffle every time, no problems whatsoever, and my imac was always undependable. this certainly makes me think it's my imac, not the shuffle, as many people are suggesting.

in any case, i used to have my ipod prefs set to NOT enable disk use, i switched it to just 8 MB Data and now the iPS is working as it should. i don't know if this is going to work for everyone, or even if it's going to keep working!! - but it is for now.

cheers!

I'm having a similar problem. At first the 1Gb shuffle just stopped on me. I though the battery might be discharged so I plugged it in to recharge. I noticed that my PBook no longer saw the shuffle but the battery charging light was on. I tried it in my PC and it saw the shuffle as a removable drive but would not recognize it through iTunes. I took it back to the Apple Store in Oak Brook Illinois. They couldn't get it to work either. They filled out the paper work for a warranty replacement and said it would be a week or two suggesting that I would get faster service on line. Its 5 weeks later and so far calls to the store are useless. They don't respond to email inquiries. At first it would at least recharge. Now it is completely dead.

I finally got tired of waiting and went to service on line. I'm filling out the form and it is telling me it is out of warranty which is complete garbage. It has a year warranty and the product hasn't even been out that long. I went through their hoops two days ago and the status still reads customer action pending. This is the second suffle that has died on me. The first only lasted 10 days. I love the device when it is working but I think they have a bad design. I don't think the device is sealed properly.

In any case after being a long time Apple customer I don't appreciate this kind of treatment. I was just about to buy another iBook and now I am rethinking that decision.

Yeah, I have to say that after being one of the "lucky ones" to buy an ill-fated iBook (two free repairs to date, but they wiped my hard drive without telling me the second time) and now an ill-fated Shuffle, my patience is wearing a little thin for my beloved Apple products.

But then again, what else is there? Linux? I bought a Mac because I didn't want to be a computer geek, or learn code. Windows? Crikey, save me.

Sounds reasonable to me. Is there something wrong here that I missed that led to the multiple exclamation points?

I know now how to get consistent behavior, at least for me. When other USB peripherals is attached to the keyboard the USB hub in it sometimes seem to give to little power for the shuffle to mount. If I have nothing else than the shuffle in the keyboard it mounts just fine.