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Decision: Get Ipod Classic or stick with rockbox'd 5.5g
yapper:
If you are tempted to swap the drive for a larger one, take a look at the Wiki here http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HardDriveReplacement
cool_walking_:
--- Quote from: yapper on October 28, 2007, 10:10:41 PM ---If you are tempted to swap the drive for a larger one, take a look at the Wiki here http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HardDriveReplacement
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Has anyone ever done this with a 5.5G iPod and lived to tell the tale? Is there any possibility of bricking the iPod, or is the worst that can happen that the drive just doesn't work?
What side effects are there? I'm guessing there will be some loss of battery life, but how much?
Does it have to be a certain type of drive (other than the connector)? Wasn't the complication in supporting the 80GB 5.5G due to a different hard drive?*
If I take the 60GB drive out, try the new one, and it doesn't work, so go back to the 60GB drive, will the iPod bootloader/firmware notice something's up and do something stupid like format the drive?
Will Rockbox/the PC be able to access the whole volume of the disk?
Anything else? ;)
I ran out of space on my 60GB about a month ago, and have been furiously swapping out files. It's very annoying.
EDIT:
*No it wasn't, it was due to a different ATA controller.
Chronon:
I have not done this, but as long as you get the pin assignment correct then everything should be fine as far as Rockbox is concerned. One subtle question is whether or not iTunes will agree to install Apple firmware to such a drive. However, I'm sure there are ways around that if iTunes decides it doesn't want to play ball (for example, something similar to the old fwpatcher method of installing Rockbox to the iPods)
I don't see a way that swapping the drive would brick it. Apple's bootloader and emergency disk mode are stored in flash so changing the hard drive out can't get rid of your ability to connect via USB.
There are issues with using all of the capacity of large disks. See this wiki page for more info:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/BigDisk
cool_walking_:
Thanks for the info.
--- Quote from: Chronon on October 29, 2007, 02:18:20 AM ---as long as you get the pin assignment correct
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Do you just mean "not plugging the connector in upside-down", or is there something more to this? Do the Toshiba/Seagate/Samsung drives use different pins for different things?
Chronon:
Well, some drives use a 50 pin connection while others use a ZIF 40 pin connector. It looks like the new 1.8" 160GB drives use CE-ATA.
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