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LambdaCalculus:
Oooh, the possibilities! Upgrade an H320 to an H380? w00t indeed! ;)

Hell, I'd get this for a Gigabeat or iAUDIO, even!

scharkalvin:
Well they ain't cheap.  I found a few 80gb drives for sale.  Some of these may be the 40/44pin connector type, not the 44/50 pin used on gigabeat/early ipod units.  Still an adapter isn't out of the question as the interface is STILL ATA, the signals are the same just in different places on different connectors.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Toshiba-MK8009GAH-1-8-80GB-ZIF-IPOD-ZUNE-PDA-Drive_W0QQitemZ300174055216QQihZ020QQcategoryZ48680QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m118
http://www.avereststore.com/servlet/the-9502/80GB-4200RPM-1.8%22-ATA/Detail
http://www.superwarehouse.com/Toshiba_80_GB_Internal_Hard_Drive/HDD1764/p/1502485
http://www.pacificgeek.com/product.asp?ID=55165&C=202&S=1000
http://www.compumusic.com/i205598.htm
http://www.monstronix.com/hdd1764-p-408157.html
http://www.cesell.com/product.php?productid=107138

markun:

--- Quote from: scharkalvin on December 17, 2007, 12:49:19 PM ---Still an adapter isn't out of the question as the interface is STILL ATA, the signals are the same just in different places on different connectors.
--- End quote ---

http://www.stolltech.ch/iriver.pdf

adam917:

--- Quote from: GodEater on December 17, 2007, 06:01:08 AM ---What exactly isn't clear about it ?

ATA-7 is the 7th version of the ATA protocol.

--- End quote ---
Is this compatible with iriver H-series & other older non-ZIF devices?

Davide-NYC:
There are different interconnects (or interfaces) on the drives.
The earlier iPods, the iriver h100, h300 and the gigabeat F series all had the 50 pin (female) connector. See the first attached pic.

Then they went to ZIF. (iPod 5g, Gigabeat X, etc.) See the second attached pic.
If someone would produce a ZIF to 50pin adapter, like the one made in the stolltech PDF (up two or three posts) it would sell like hotcakes. I guarantee it.

Now they speak of ATA-7 LIF. I am not sure what LIF is but I believe it stands for Linear Insertion Force.

Read the announcement here: http://www.toshibastorage.com/techdocs/PR2007-12-18-inchPC-CEHDDAnnouncement.pdf

If anyone has details or can link to a pic of a Toshiba MK1214GAH drive please post it. Thanks.

Anyways here are the specs (lifted from the PDF)

Product Specifications – For the 120GB model.
Model no.  MK1214GAH
Capacity 120GB
No. of platters 2
No. of heads 4
Logical sector size 512 B/sector
Buffer size 2MB
Average seek time 15 msec
Interface ATA-7 (LIF connector)    

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