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Gigabeat flash conversion project
scharkalvin:
I'm going to open the thing back up and make sure that there isn't any contact between the adapter circuit board and the gigabeat circuit board. I might have had an intermittent short causing the read errors. I doubt it, but from the photo I see that the business card might not have covered the full width of the adapter card. I'm thinking of using double sided tape to stick the business card to the GB pc and the adapter to the card. Should also keep things from bouncing around.
The CF card I used is slow (40x whatever that means). There are faster CF cards available, New Egg also sells a Transcend brand for about $25 bucks more than the A-data I used with a 133x speed. Maybe the faster CF card would work better?
--- Quote ---It does sound a bit like some timing issues. You might try the IRC channel for some advice on this. You'll stand a better chance of getting some info from the developers.
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Well I tried setting the disk spin down time up to 255 seconds and this seems to have helped. (but why, since I commented out the disk reset/powerdown in ata.c as was suggested for the ipod mini with a CF flash?)
If anybody else has the guts to try this, let me know how it works! BTW the adapter card was purchased on ebay from 'linuxbeginner', and I found that 'TRY2B BEST' also sells them (both in Hong Kong so shipping is a bit slow in transit).
psycho_maniac:
How much did this all cost you?
scharkalvin:
--- Quote ---How much did this all cost you?
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The CF flash card was $105 at Newegg.com. The adapter was
about $13 including shipping on ebay. I got the F10 player for $65
on ebay.
Davide-NYC:
@ scharkalvin: How's it going? Any problems? Please report back your experiances.
Thanks! :)
johnson4:
really cool idea!!
is the CF card thin enough that you could modify the F10 case and have a thinner overall player?
keep it up !
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