a friend of mine has an ipod.....ipods certainly get detected as firewire hard drives, well his ipod does, running windows XP.
the only thing is that you can't see the playable music files on the ipod, they are hidden. all other files are viewable and can be transferred between devices and PC's. so pictures and movies etc are easy to move.
there are also some third party programs to view all files on an ipod.
i think the Zen is a little bit more simple, but might require some drivers, but i think it's detected as a USB2 drive...i've never tried one though
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GF4 Ti 4200 128Mb <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by FiL on 08/15/04 07:35 PM.</EM></FONT></P>