Possible ZIF to 1.8" IDE adapter! 100GB iriver H140?

[gevaerts]

So, I can, without a doubt, fit an 8mm drive into my H320, albeit with a bit of bodging?

I wouldn't risk it

[st515O]

Actually I think if you grind the tabs off in the back cover,  remove all the blue rubber padding  and  use the factory battery, or factory sized battery, you just might be able to get a 8mm drive to fit.  It'll be *extremely* close, but there is a small chance it'll work.   No way it'll work with a higher capacity battery pack though.     Right now I'm running a higher capacity battery pack, with all the rubber padding and the factory 20gig drive  and everything *barely*   fits in the  320.

[dukestah]

I think this adaptor is the best choice and with this adaptor there need no modifications. but this is too expensive to pay.
http://esskabel.de/Produkte/Anschlussadapter/HDD-1.8-REV1/ADA-HDD-1.8-REV1-haupt.htm#ADA-HDD-1.8-ZIF-CF

has anybody done this modification so far? I've got the above mentioned adaptor and it looks like shown on your pictures. My problem is now, the adaptor comes with 25 pairs of connectors, the i-river 340 interface offers just 22 pairs. So I'm puzzled how to connect the adaptor because neither top or bottom is specified nor which side of the pins is not required.

[sordup]

I had the exact same problem as inluxication above with the bending of the cable causing the drive activity light to stay on and the slightest pressure (i.e. the press of the Nav button) causing power downs and reboots into iRiver firmware. inluxication's suggestion of a piece of insulator (I used a strip of plastic) separating the folded cable and the drive body seems to have solved the problem nicely.

Definitely a tight fit though!

[spazz]

Dukestah,
I'm trying to find  ADA-HDD-1.8-ZIF-CF to upgrade my h140 with a mk2431gah. I contacted Esskabel to see if they could refer me to a reseler in Canada but the place they gave me are asking 150$(can) for it wich is a bit crazy. Do you have any suggestion for a place that would sale the zif-to-ide adapter from Kabel and deliver to Canada. I tryed with Span.com but they can only sell me 10units wich is a not a solution either...

[sordup]

Update on my attempt at this upgrade:
After a couple weeks of working successfully, my ihp140 running on a 100G toshiba HDD through the Dealextreme adapter, the thing stopped booting up with an error at the start screen of "Result: -5" (the same error that I received when fist squeezing everything back together and not having insulated the folded connector ribbon). Now i can not even get my previous IDE connector drives to boot either Rockbox or the original iriver firmware and my beloved ihp is now the proverbial brick.
It is as if the adapter corrupted the drive connection bridge.
An alternate option without the extreme squeeze would be desirable.
And if anyone knows of a solution to the Result: -5 error, please tell me...

Addendum: Most likely the too tight fit in this case was due to my higher capacity battery - something I'm only now realizing...

[isanggon]

How about try this one:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=21676.0

It's now the best one. The only needed modification is modding bottom ruber.
I'll upload some picture when I get that adapter. It will be next weekend.

[Multiplex]

If you've had to squeeze everything in there might you have the ATA/USB card soldering problem? - I can't remember if that gave -5 or -1 as an error