Okay, so now I’m typing this in Windows XP. I plugged in the iPod and when iTunes started, it complained that it cannot read the iPod and asked my permission to restore it to its factory settings. Ugh! So I gave it permission, it downloaded the firmware(!) and restored it to factory settings. Thankfully, it’s usable again. I just noticed there’s an option to “Enable disk use”.

Maybe I need to enable that for it to be usable under Linux. At this point, I’m wimping out and I’m not going to try this thing under Linux. Though it’s still under warranty, I doubt that “bricked by Linux” is covered by the warranty. Perhaps this is just another reason to buy a Macbook Pro.

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