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Upgrading Gigabeat S (and/or F/X) HDD?

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linuxstb:
Nate!

You asked me in a PM what 80GB drive I used in my Gigabeat F, and where I bought it from.  I'll answer here as the info may be of interest to others.

The drive is the Toshiba MK8007GAH, and I bought it from an ebay store based in the US.  This was around 6 months ago, and they sold out shortly after I bought mine.  I think I paid around $200 USD.  They now seem extremely hard to find.

All I did when I received my drive was plug it in, create a single FAT32 partition, format it, and copy back the GBSYSTEM folder I had backed up from the previous drive.

Nate!:
linuxstb

Thanks for the info.  I thought about posting it here after the fact.

This may be off topic, but it looks as though MK8009GAH may have similar specs.  Do you think this one would work?  (Actually seems to be shorter, but all other size and tech specs seem the same.)

Again, thanks.

Febs:
I believe that the MK8009GAH has a ZIF connector, while the MK8007GAH has a 50 pin connector.

scharkalvin:

--- Quote ---All I did when I received my drive was plug it in, create a single FAT32 partition, format it, and copy back the GBSYSTEM folder I had backed up from the previous drive.
--- End quote ---

In this case it sounds like the bootstrap in flash memory doesn't make use of a disk based bootloader in either the disk's MBR or the boot sector on the disk fat partition.  THAT would imply that the flash based bootloader has the fat filesystem driver in it because it would need to do a directory lookup to find the GBSYSTEM folder and the file to load by name.  (Which does point to the USB storage driver code ALSO being in flash).

It also means that my suggestion for repairing a corrupt disk by reloading the MBR and bootloader sectors would do nothing, because these disk sectors wouldn't have anything that gets used on them.

Rockbox Gigabeat developers care to chime in on this?
(is the Gigabeat boot loader flow documented in a wiki somewhere, or just in the source?)

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