Rockbox and Compact Flash

[petur]

well the changes made to support CF shouldn't cause what you are seeing.

The only way to be sure is to prove it: load an older firmware and see if that works fine. I have been testing with an A-Data 8GB x266 ('turbo') and so far no problems....

I'd surely do a chkdsk /f on that card

[scharkalvin]

well the changes made to support CF shouldn't cause what you are seeing.

The only way to be sure is to prove it: load an older firmware and see if that works fine. I have been testing with an A-Data 8GB x266 ('turbo') and so far no problems....

I'd surely do a chkdsk /f on that card

I doubt that the changes are the problem.  I ran chkdsk /f  after the fact, and then noticed that the firmware and fonts were missing along with my saved configuration.  Not sure if any music files are gone.

With the new firmware I no longer have the problem with the CF and USB stack of having to power cycle the battery switch after any USB file operations.  Pulling the USB cable used to result in the player hanging up, now pulling the cable resumes normal operation as it did with the hard disk.
(I logically dismounted the CF from the PC in either case, but it didn't help with the old f/w).

I suspect that in normal operation some disk writing is going on to log play history, otherwise I can't imagine how just playing music would cause a directory failure (if the operation was read only....).

I very well may have a defective CF card (too late to return it for a refund from newegg, but I'll replace it with the 32gb version when it gets a little cheaper....).


BTW, what player are you using, Mine is a Gigabeat F10

[voltonmic]

my 4g ipod w/grayscale gave me an ATA error -80.  i used rockbox util 1.0.4 / r16609.  using transcend 8gb, 133x.

[antonyfirst]

hmmm it is not seeing the CF card *at all*

is it connected correctly?

Hi Pete,

Sure, the CF card is inserted perfectly. There are no problems with pre 02-10-2008 releases.

[petur]

I have an iriver h320 (now h308 )

Regarding ATA -80 on ipods: I'm almost sure you need a new bootloader. It probably has to be build and released by somebody before you can install it, unless you build your own.
I know almost nothing about the ipods though....

[Llorean]

iPods are safe enough that there's really no risk in building a bootloader from SVN, but yes, they'll need to install a new one I'm sure (you can use the old iPodpatcher to install a new bootloader).

Just compile a bootloader, download the iPodPatcher binary, the "ipodpatcher -a bootloaderfile" if memory serves. ipodpatcher's help should contain all the information you need if that's not the right command line.

[scharkalvin]

We will soon have another (probably initially expensive) option to upgrade HD players to flash thanks to Intel.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9067858&intsrc=hm_list

[yanansi]

got mine 5.5th ipod video 30GB convert into CF pod with iflash and the adata 32GB CF. works fine with apple firmare.

try to  install the rockbox with rbutilqt i got ATA error: -1

whats wrong with it?

[linuxstb]

I think you'll need to compile and install your own bootloader - as mentioned earlier in this thread, the released bootloaders don't include the changes to support CF cards.

Or at least, you should try that, and see if it helps...

[yanansi]

tarkan shows that it is working:
http://www.tarkan.info/20080126/tutorials/32gb-compact-flash-ipod/3/
where can i found the version: r16170

cheers

[michaelc5047]

I installed a 32GB AData "Speedy" CF card with one of Tarkan's ZIF to CF adapters. I downloaded the VMWare image, grabbed the source, built a bootloader, installed it using ipodpatcher 2.0.

Bootloader works fine -- the iPod would boot to the bootloader message (which said "CF 32GB" on the screen, if I recall correctly.) I then installed the current build from this afternoon. Got an ATA -1 message after hanging on the Rockbox logo screen. Built Rockbox myself (r16850-080328). Got another ATA -1 message after getting stuck at the logo. Here's what the debug screen showed:

gpio states
a 28 e 21 i 9b
b f9 f 02 j e3
c b0 g ff k 1f
d a0 h ff l a8

gpo32_val  00004000
gpo32_en  fe80feff
dev_en c2011124
dev_en2 00000000
dev_en3 0000003f
dev_init1 00040000
dev_init2 40000000

The card works fine with the Apple firmware.

[tarkan]

Hi Guys,

Not being a Rockbox expert - so not sure if this will help you.

My first problem with the 32gb A-Data card was the partition table was corrupt, so I used my camera to do a full format (the camera wrote a clean master table).

Secondly, I could not do a manual installation - copying over the files and then activating using iPodpatcher. I ended up doing an automatic install using the RockboxUtility software. This worked first time.

regards, Tarkan

[petur]

The ipod needs a particular partition setup so I doubt doing a simple format would make the card usable

Maybe the IpodManualRestore wiki page can be of help...

(I do not have an ipod so I might be wrong there)

[modernman]

Hello

I have been using rockbox for about the last 16 months or so on various ipods.  I am currently working on my 5g with tarkans compact flash adapter and the A-Data Speedy card (which as others have pointed out, is not all that speedy).

I have compiled and installed the last bootloader and installed it with ipodpatcher as Llorean and others have suggested, as well as the latest build of rockbox (downloaded from the current build page).  When booting, I get the following error:

Partition 1: 0x0B 3848 MB
Loading Rockbox...
Error!
Can't load rockbox.ipod:
File not found

I have restored the ipod a couple of times in itunes with firmware 1.3.  When I plug in the ipod to both my linux box and windows, it sees a a 15gb fat32 partition and a smaller partition for the firmware so I dont' think it is the partition table that is messed up.  Although it is weird that partition 1 is 3848 mb according to rockbox. 

On the CF page in the wiki there is a discussion of the use of this card with the iriver targets so I know it works with rockbox.  Tarkan and others have indicated the that 32gb Speedy card worked fine.  Is this an issue only with the 16gb card?  Or I am doing something glaringly wrong?  Any help anyone can give me would be great.  Thanks in advance.

[Llorean]

Could you paste the entire output of your bootloader  rather than just the end?

And "Partition 1" makes sense. It's array counting, so the first partition is actually Partition 0.