Hi there, I'd appreciate any advice regarding my modified ipod. I understand using rockbox on a 7th Gen ipod is unstable. The old hard drive was not working so I read a few guides and decided I had nothing to lose and had a go at modifying it.
I'm not super technical but here goes:
I took out the original ipod hard drive and replaced it with a dual microSD to CF Type 1 adapter plugged into a CF to 1.8 ZIF CE 50pin adapter, then I put rockbox on it. It shows up on my computer as having a 239GB hard drive. After lots of trial and error and reading more guides - it works - I can load files on in small transfers, playback is fine, but I have had a couple of problems.
1. There are some errors with transferring - I have put this down to it being unstable and not too worried. I have been using the fallback image and rebooting when I eject the ipod from the file menu, not system tray
2. Occasionally when above errors have occurred I have not been able to delete the particular folder off the ipod, I assume this is probably a similar problem?
3. I think it can only write to half the drive - whenever I have got close to transferring 100+ GB of music it seems to crash and I have to reformat the data partition and start again. It's frustrating, but I'm in the process of copying up to 100ish GB of music onto it. If there was a way to get more than that I'd love to know. If I just have to live with it using half the drive then ok.
The microSD cards are authentic and have full capacity - I checked them first.
The Rockbox version I currently have on the player is 1ccada1f-150911 (updated it today 22/9/15)
EmCore is 2.3 r859
I'd apprecciate any advice as I have another 7th Gen ipod that I want to fix and I'd like to know if I should do something different, e.g. a different type of hard drive
I hope I've been clear enough. Thanks in advance!