iPod iTunes not seeing Nano

[ATD]

I just got my wife a iPod Nano. We have 2 computers at home, a 1.25 Dual and a 1.4 Dual both running 10.3.8. The 1.4 Dual (mine) took a long while to see the Nano show up in iTunes (about 20 min of messing with it). I went to her computer and it will not see it at all. The iPod icon shows up on the desktop but iTunes 6 will not see it and even the in the iTunes Prefs it says no iPod connected. I'm thinking that it might be a USB2 issue and a Firewire connector would solve it. Or maybe it's a 10.3.8 issue. I am holding back on upgrading to Tiger because it has big issues with a program I use all the time. Any ideas?


Thanks

 

[ATD]

I did some more checking and it seems that it should run with 10.3.8 and iTunes 6. The Firewire option is out as far as I can tell. What I'm not sure of is if the Dual 1.25 is USB2. I went to the About This Mac, it give me a lot of technical data without saying if it was USB1 or 2. Can anyone remember if the 1.25 Dual came with USB2 or help me decode the info window?

Thanks

 

[seamuskrat]

Pretty sure it was USB 1.0

I have a dual 1.0 and USB 1. I am not sure Macs got 2.0 until at least the Metal front Macs.

I did some more checking and it seems that it should run with 10.3.8 and iTunes 6. The Firewire option is out as far as I can tell. What I'm not sure of is if the Dual 1.25 is USB2. I went to the About This Mac, it give me a lot of technical data without saying if it was USB1 or 2. Can anyone remember if the 1.25 Dual came with USB2 or help me decode the info window?

Thanks

 

[yg17]

The Nano will work in a USB 1.0 port, it will just be a lot slower at transferring music.

 

[ATD]

Both have metal fronts but when I transfered one album from the 1.4 Dual to the Nano it took about 5 min. Seems like USB 1 to me. Thanks for the info, I guess I just need to keep messing with it.

 

[ATD]

I got it working, I had to upgrade to 10.3.9. Everything I read said it works on 10.3.4 but the last solution (the only one I hadn't done) from the Apple site was upgrading.