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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.
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