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Rockbox and Compact Flash
petur:
CF support was added to SVN on 2008-03-09, so it really surprises me it got broken after 2008-02-10 ;)
so it would seeem that the 4th gen ipod didn't need the CF modifications, but the changes (or other changes) broke it :(
it would indeed be nice to know what build broke it... ata-1 is some pretty fundamental problem like the ata hard reset failing. You're sure this in exact the same circumstances?
viperX:
I tried with version from Feb 9th based on comment from page 3:
Sure, the CF card is inserted perfectly. There are no problems with pre 02-10-2008 releases.
Based on this, tried the release from the day before and presto! it worked.
Based on Petur's comments, I've tried today the versions from 2008-03-09 and 2008-03-10 and NONE of them work so the CF modifications do not seem to be the cause of the 4G CF "support" failure but something else.
Any suggestion for a sistematic approach better than trying all releases from Feb 8th?
Regards
AlexP:
Do a binary search. Start half way between, and try. If it works, go half way from there to now. If it doesn't work go half way back towards the working one and so on.
i.e. builds A B C D E
E works, A doesn't. Try C. If C works try D etc. etc.
1ny0urfac3:
Ok, I've been trying to install rockbox with a 32 gig compactflash card in my 30gig video and have been experiencing the same ATA-1 error. where did you get the 2-09-08 build? Thanks
I think I may know the problem, I am using this A-data http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211244
and it is quite slow, so slow that it cannot awake from deep sleep in the original ipod firmware correctly according to tarkan. Someone here told me that the ATA-1 error occured because the disk would'nt spin up. If someone made a build that gave longer boot time is it possible that it would boot then? I know literally nothing about this but this is just a theory.
viperX:
I'm using what looks to be the same card but on 8Gb. I'm not having any issue using the original firmware, works flawlessly in all conditions although "could be" a bit slower when synchronizing, but this is unperceptible on normal use.
As for the build... I built a compiling environment on Ubuntu hardy (using frugal install within and XP disk) and followed the tutorials at the wiki:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CrossCompiler (to install the required packages)
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SimpleGuideToCompiling (on how to compile)
and
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UsingSVN (how to download an SVN snapshot as of an specific date)
It takes some time if you don't have the linux install, but once the environment is ready you can create a built in a matter of minutes.
Regards
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