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iRiver H120 CF Mod Attempt - Success!
Siar:
Welcome to the club ;). I have exactly the same adapter and 8Gb of sloooow A-Data. After commenting "ata.c" and recompiling the source file, everything start working fine. The only bug I have - it gets stuck in a car mode. Probably, there is another "ata.c" bug is present.
BTW, how did you manage to close the device? I had to cut off the jumper to be able to do it.
In addition, 32Gb CF A-Data is 149$ now... ;D
petur:
--- Quote from: Siar on January 13, 2008, 11:41:43 PM ---I have exactly the same adapter and 8Gb of sloooow A-Data.
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I assume you're talking about the A-Data 'speedy' card (orange color). Is the slowness a problem? I have an adapter here but still looking to buy a good CF card.
scharkalvin:
--- Quote ---In addition, 32Gb CF A-Data is 149$ now..
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Well actually it's only cents less than $150 and the 16GB card is now down to $70.
EGAD! seems the price is dropping faster than the price of gasoline is rising!
I think if it drops by another $25 I'm going to pull the trigger on this one and convert my converted F10 -> F16 gigabeat to an F32 (well F30 due to round off errors in base 16->base 10).
BTW I do seem to have a problem with the conversion in that the gigabeat gets locked in the disk mode after the usb cable is removed and the only way I can reboot it is to power cycle it (with the handy battery switch). This doesn't seem to hurt anything except that I lose the time of day (and have to reset the clock) every time I download new music.
--- Quote ---I assume you're talking about the A-Data 'speedy' card (orange color). Is the slowness a problem? I have an adapter here but still looking to buy a good CF card.
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Well maybe (see above). It DID take almost half an hour to download about 1GB worth of music files to my converted Gigabeat using the A-data 16gb card. With the HD in there the transfer time would have been MUCH less. I just use the "verbose" switch and the command line copy command so I can see that it hasn't hung up and is really just slow and I'm ok with that.
petur:
right...
I guess I'll spend a bit more and go for the faster 'turbo' card:
8GB (120X) - US$95.00
8GB (266X) - US$126.00
I wonder what the cheap 'speedy' cards have as specs, the a-data site doesn't mention anything other than PIO4 mode
bascule:
--- Quote from: scharkalvin on January 14, 2008, 08:12:44 AM ---BTW I do seem to have a problem with the conversion in that the gigabeat gets locked in the disk mode after the usb cable is removed and the only way I can reboot it is to power cycle it (with the handy battery switch). This doesn't seem to hurt anything except that I lose the time of day (and have to reset the clock) every time I download new music.
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Is that this problem?
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