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iRiver H120 CF Mod Attempt - Success!
scharkalvin:
--- Quote ---So is the official model name (for searching) "gigabeat f10" (f20 f30 f40 etc)?
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That should do it. Gigabeat F10, F20, F40 and F60, though I've NEVER found any
F60's for sale. They probably didn't make many of them.
BTW if you are doing a flash conversion just look for a good F10, no sense paying more for
the HD that you will be removing anyway. The F10 and F20 machines are about 3mm thinner
than the F40/F60, though the difference is only in the back cover (to make room for a thicker
hard disk). The only advantage of converting an F40 would be that you MIGHT be able to
fit an extra battery in there next to the CF adapter. If you get the cradle note that the
F10/20 cradle WON'T fit the F40/60 players (there are TWO sizes of cradle). You don't really
need the cradle, though it does provide a line out function for playing the unit through an
external amp (maybe a better impedance match than using the headphone jack.) I'm not
sure if the player volume control varies the line out level. (haven't tried this yet)
To open the player up to swap out the HD just pop off the bottom plate, remove two screws and
then slide the back down and lift off (it has a bayonet like latch holding it on). The HD is wrapped
in a soft rubber jacket that holds it in place.
Here are two F10's on ebay now
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270205522252&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170187486427&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
johnson4:
how is the gigabeat's response to rockboy doom and mpegplayer? is it noticable in any way to using a HD?
thanks
scharkalvin:
--- Quote ---how is the gigabeat's response to rockboy doom and mpegplayer? is it noticable in any way to using a HD?
thanks
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I haven't tried putting any videos on my converted player yet. Maybe I'll get to do that over the weekend.
I have a few youtube videos (bugs bunny cartoons!) converted to mpegs on my HD F40 I can transfer to the
"F16"
BTW the CF card on the gigabeat needed to have scandisk run on it as the directory got corrupted yesterday and my config file disappeared. (scandisk fixed this, but then I had to rebuild the database. don't think I lost
any music files though). Does linux FSCK work like scandisk with fat32 file systems? (ie: can you USE fsck with a fat32 file system?)
GodEater:
--- Quote from: scharkalvin on January 24, 2008, 08:02:47 AM ---Does linux FSCK work like scandisk with fat32 file systems? (ie: can you USE fsck with a fat32 file system?)
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You'd use "fsck.vfat"
larry_llama:
Cool, thanks for the tips re: toshiba. I got the mini on Friday and with the original 4gb drive it's snappier with rockbox than the h320. The gigabeat looks great but it's physically comparable in size to the h1x series irivers... I like the idea of the metal body and size of the mini. I hate ipods but this form factor is pretty slick I have to say.
The only problems so far with the mini have been related to booting it. It's very awkward to get it to boot into disk mode, maybe I'm off with my button timing. And if I boot into rockbox while it's plugged into USB, it just repeatedly reboots.... weird. Occasionally it doesn't recognize me hitting the play button to start it up and i have to do a two-finger salute (reset) to get it to power on.
I am going to test it out with my 512 CF card this week and if all goes well, I'll try to get a big kahuna CF (32 or if I can't find it, 16).
Newegg doesn't ship to Canada unfortunately. However I am going to vegas in a week and a half, incidentally does anyone on here know of a store there where I might find one (save myself some tax and shipping). It's a long shot but it can't hurt to ask!
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