I bought my new 30Gb iPod yesterday and gave it an overnight charge.

This morning I began transferring my MP3 files to the iPod from my Gateway laptop running windows XP. I now that while using the 6-pin to 4-pin firewire adapter the iPod will not be charged, but what I'm experiencing is a depletion of the batter after about an hour of file transferring. Is this normal?

Also, if I were to buy and install a Firewire card into my desktop PC, would this allow the iPod to be powered while I transferred files to it?

This is a really fancy tool for me! I'm really looking forward to being able to take my entire music library with me in my pocket. I just hope I can get the bugs worked out soon!

Thanks in advance for the information!!

Sincerely,

Glenn C.
Northridge, CA