Third generation (3G) iPod and Mac OS 9

[KnobsNSwitches]

I recently picked up a working 3rd gen iPod (dock connector, 4 buttons across the top only charges via firewire), and I'm trying to see if I can get it to show up in iTunes 2 in Mac OS 9. I'm connected to a G4 cube via firewire, I know OS 9 never did anything w/ USB syncing and ipods.

I found a couple old posts out there (https://forums.ilounge.com/threads/3g-ipod-and-os9.5724/) and it seems like it should be possible, but I'm not sure. 

I even tried Audion but that just freezes when the iPod is attached. The iPod does show up in the Finder as a Firewire disk and behaves normally there. Nothing ever shows up in iTunes.

Has any one ever tried this?

 

[KnobsNSwitches]

Just bumping this to see if anyone else has tried this. Thanks!

 

[KnobsNSwitches]

Does anyone out there have a collection of old iPod firmwares?

I have found a couple posts (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/350308) mentioning an older version of the iPod 3rd gen working in OS 9 on an older firmware version. I have 2.3  installed, and I can find .ipsw for that version, but anything older i have not found.

 

[KnobsNSwitches]

Just going to keep adding to this for posterity: https://forums.ilounge.com/threads/ipod-itunes-and-mac-os-9-2.25093/
 

Looks like the file I seek is called 'iPod201.dmg'

 

[KnobsNSwitches]

I'm still searching for this, and I'm gonna keep updating my thread as I go. 
Does anyone have the original CD that came with the third gen iPod? There's a good chance what I'm looking for is on there. 

If Apple hadn't shutdown their old download pages, I'd be good to go... the windows version of the updater even has it's own page: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1210?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US 

But the download goes nowhere and archive.org doesn't have it.

 

[KnobsNSwitches]

Apparently firmware 2.0.1 has been relatively hard to find fo several years now. It once was hosted here as well, also gone and not captured: http://alphaxion.dyndns.org/utils/utils.shtml

This is all assuming i can get teh windows version of it to work...

 

[flyingcarpet]

Hi there.

I came across your post here searching for this exact same thing. Indeed, it is hard to find, but I found it and thought I should share it with you and anyone else who stumbles across your postings as I did.

It is an OSX PPC version, so it will need 10.6.8 or lower to run.