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Chronon:
To add another data point, I have never had to do the hot-swap trick.  I have needed to flip the battery switch on several occasions -- but these were all shortly after I installed Rockbox at a time when there was a bug causing the system to hang at shutdown.  I haven't had to do this in months.

Mad Cow:

--- Quote from: scharkalvin on October 14, 2007, 12:39:43 PM ---
--- 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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I've had to when I was messing around with modifying and compiling the bootloader, and also when I was using a hacked version of Toshiba's bootloader. You don't have to do any of those things to get rockbox running.

The battery replacement went OK, I think I got a bad battery though, because it barely lasted longer than the original. I ordered a new one from a different place, hopefully that'll give me at least 20 hours.

scharkalvin:
Sounds good.  I was looking for a player with a fair amount of storage space
and good battery life (>15 hours).  Used iPods are quite common but I understand
that battery life isn't too good yet with Rockbox on them.  Sounds like the
gigabeat might be a better choice.

One thought. With the iPods you can swap out a hard disk with a replacement fairly
easy because the on board firmware will let you gain access to the disk via the usb connection and load the necessary firmware using Apple's software or via DD with Linux.  Same for replacing an iPod hard disk with a CF module.  What about the
gigabeat?  How easy is it to get one going after replacing a hard disk (or replacing one with a CF)?  Anybody tried this?

GodEater:
Replacing the hard disk is trivial - linuxstb is rocking an F80 now for example :)

No-one's tried doing a CF installation on one - why would you either? I'm not aware of +40GB CF cards, and the interface doesn't support it anyway.

Mad Cow:

--- Quote from: scharkalvin on October 14, 2007, 02:02:41 PM ---Sounds good.  I was looking for a player with a fair amount of storage space
and good battery life (>15 hours).  Used iPods are quite common but I understand
that battery life isn't too good yet with Rockbox on them.  Sounds like the
gigabeat might be a better choice.

One thought. With the iPods you can swap out a hard disk with a replacement fairly
easy because the on board firmware will let you gain access to the disk via the usb connection and load the necessary firmware using Apple's software or via DD with Linux.  Same for replacing an iPod hard disk with a CF module.  What about the
gigabeat?  How easy is it to get one going after replacing a hard disk (or replacing one with a CF)?  Anybody tried this?

--- End quote ---

If you have gigabeat room, it'll back up all of your original firmware onto your computer. All you have to do then is copy that folder to your gigabeat. A gigabeat would probably be your best choice for a rockbox player, and you can find brand new ones really cheap on ebay.

I've tried 2 CF card before, but none of them worked. Toshiba's bootloader got halfway before the screen just faded into weird colours. It might be because those 2 card don't support full ATA specs though.

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