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probedb:
I also can't safely dismount the drive, it says it can't be stopped even tho nothing is accessing it.

I think something is screwed with the filesystem part of rockbox for some 1st gen nanos....I'm happy to help debug if someone can tell me what I need to do.

GodEater:

--- Quote from: probedb on November 20, 2007, 04:45:50 AM ---I also can't safely dismount the drive, it says it can't be stopped even tho nothing is accessing it.

--- End quote ---

You need to keep trying. If the computer tells you it can't be stopped it's because something is still accessing it. If you unplug it whilst the computer is telling you this, then you WILL get file corruption.


--- Quote ---I think something is screwed with the filesystem part of rockbox for some 1st gen nanos....I'm happy to help debug if someone can tell me what I need to do.

--- End quote ---

They use the same filesystem as every other Rockbox target. What *is* known about Nanos is that Apple's emergency disk mode (which is what Rockbox boots into when you plug in the USB cable) is orders of magnitude slower than the disk mode you get when you're running the original firmware. For this reason a lot of Nano owners choose to boot into the original firmware before they copy over data. This means the transfer goes a lot quicker, and they are less likely to lose their patience when trying to safely eject the hardware, and therefore also less likely to get file system corruption.

Hopefully these issues will go away when Rockbox has it's own USB Mass Storage mode on PortalPlayer targets, and we won't have to rely on Apple's super slow disk mode.

probedb:
Hey, thanks for the reply :) All seems to be ok at the moment...I used to get the corruption but it seems to be ok now.

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