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Possible ZIF to 1.8" IDE adapter! 100GB iriver H140?
GodEater:
I think someone already tried this with the drive from an S60 and putting it into and F40 chassis. The Connector in the F series *looks* like a ZIF, but it isn't.
burkjavier:
I just got my ZIF to 50 pin adapter in the mail today and started my tests (getting my F40 to work with my ZIF based MK6008GAH - using just the ribbon did not work at all. Using the 50 pin adapter in-between allowed the drive to spin up and be viewable on my PC, but it could never completely load. In Windows, I saw the device but no drive letter (and nothing in Disk Management). In Ubuntu, dmesg saw the device but there were a lot of errors, and I couldn't mount it. Such a shame that this wonderful device cannot be upgraded to a ZIF drive.
EDIT: This is interesting. With the adapter, USB mode does not work, as mentioned. However, if I copy files to the ZIF drive via alternate means and then attach the drive to the F40, it does load up Rockbox and it does play music. Not sure if the tolerance for errors is higher, or if there's just something about USB mode that the adapter does not like. Still not very usable, given that I'd need to pull out the hard drive every time I wanted to add files to the F40. Plus, I can't put the darn thing back together with the extra adapter in it! >:(
petur:
still, that's interesting... ATA access can be tweaked in Rockbox, and once we have our own USB stack there should be no more problems...
FYI: I'm working on using CF cards in iriver h1x0/h3x0, and the original firmware also doesn't like them, whereas Rockbox has been teached to love them already :)
NicolasP:
--- Quote from: GodEater on March 03, 2008, 12:05:35 PM ---I think someone already tried this with the drive from an S60 and putting it into and F40 chassis. The Connector in the F series *looks* like a ZIF, but it isn't.
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After breaking the HD in my F, I attempted to use my S' HD in the F. The connector seemed to fit but making the connection just caused the F to shut down.
EDIT: Oh and I forgot to mention that LinusN apparently managed to fit an MK1011GAH (100GB, ZIF) in his H140 and boot Rockbox successfully: IRC log.
Jeff:
--- Quote from: NicolasP on March 05, 2008, 03:08:28 PM ---EDIT: Oh and I forgot to mention that LinusN apparently managed to fit an MK1011GAH (100GB, ZIF) in his H140 and boot Rockbox successfully: IRC log.
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So in theory then, the 160GB iPod Classic HDD should work as well. ;D
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