Hi all,
Picked up an iPod Video for super cheap and wanted to upgrade the storage, so I bought a CF-ZIF adapter (cheapo one from eBay), Qumox CF-SD adapter, and a Komputer Bay 128GB SD card.
Installed it all, dropped Rockbox on it, boots up just fine. Go to transfer some music to it (which takes 30 seconds or so just to start), at which point it transfers four files and drops to 0 bytes per second.
Rockbox then gets confused and panics. Reset it, tried again today, and attempting to transfer 1GB of music was going to take 45 minutes!
Plugged in the original HDD, installed Rockbox on it, transferred the same music, copied all of it in a minute flat.
Swapped the SD card to a 32GB Sandisk card. Same problem as the 128GB one. Swapped the CF adapter for a Seagate ST1 Microdrive, same problem (though that drive has some SMART seek issues so I think that might just be a dead drive).
There is an LED on the board to indicate disk access, but when Windows goes flat, the activity light just stays on for a while, the flickers a bit, then continues transferring.
Both cards and the CF-SD adapter with the 128GB card in work fine outside of the iPod.
I managed to copy over a FLAC file to the drive (after waiting over a minute to copy the 28MB file), it gets about a minute or so into the song and it skips itself. I'm listening to an MP3 song now and I'll report back as to how that goes.
I'm not sure what to do now, kinda tempted just to send the CF adapters back and get an iFlash adapter, but I don't know if that will fix it. Is it a problem with the iPod itself, the HDD cable, or my CF adapters?
Hope you can help me :S