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scharkalvin:
I'm close to buying myself a gigabeat F player on ebay, so I was reading up on the Gigabeat port.  The only thing that has me worried is the section on how to restore a locked up player by opening it up and hw resetting the disk.  Just how often do these players get locked up?  Is it something I should worry about?

The repair procedure mentioned that the disk drive was a USB type drive, but it clearly is a 1.8" 50pin ata type drive which shouldn't be hot plugged.

Also from the hw description it appears that this player has both usb 1.1 and 2.0 connections (with the cradle only having usb 1.1)?  It also seems like you can't charge the player from usb and have to use a separate power cord to the player (or cradle)?  Finally this player seems to have a switch to TOTALLY power it off by disconnecting the battery?  Does that mean that it doesn't have a time of day clock?

Mad Cow:
You only need to do the hot-swap trick if you really messed up something. You shouldn't worry about it if you're just installing rockbox. It has a USB 2.0 connector on the actual player itself, and on the back of the dock. The port on the side of the dock is USB 1.1, but it makes the gigabeat the USB host, so that you can plug any USB drive into it, but rockbox doesn't support it at the moment. You can charge through USB. And it does have an RTC (clock), it just resets every time you flip the switch.

You could've easily figured all this out through looking at the manual though, but I'm feeling generous. :)

scharkalvin:
Thanks for the info.  
Some of what you said is probably somewhere in the rockbox manual for the gigabeat which I've skimmed, and the rest would be in the gigabeat's own manual which I don't have.  So long as the only way to 'brick' the player would be to delete the wrong files off the hard disk I should be ok.

Mad Cow:
Even then it wouldn't brick it, and disassembly is incredibly easy for this player, so you should have no problems. I can take mine apart and do the hot-swap trick in less than a minute.

scharkalvin:

--- Quote ---I can take mine apart and do the hot-swap trick in less than a minute.

--- End quote ---
Other than battery replacement, have you ever had to?
(I've seen your post on replacement batteries else where.
BTW how did that work out?)

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