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[SOLVED] can't load rockbox.ipod - 5.5g 30GB

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gevaerts:
About the mformat error : older versions of mformat use '-n' for the number of sectors, so if "mformat -t 2428 -h 255 -s 63 -S 2048 -M 2048 -F a:" doesn't work, you can try "mformat -t 2428 -h 255 -n 63 -S 2048 -M 2048 -F a:"

staen:
It seems my mtools-version (3.9.11) uses a different scaling for the "-S n" option (2^(n+7)). The commandline
--- Code: ---mformat -t 905 -h 255 -n 63 -S 4 -M 2048 -F i:
--- End code ---
worked for me.

But still no success:
I tried formating the partition with mformat, I restored and installed the Ipod and rockbox via Windows XP, Itunes and rbutil, I tried different builds, bootloaders, partition-layouts (the original my Ipod shipped with, the one restored by Itunes and the one found here)

But still neither the bootloader nor rockbox is able to find anything in this partition.

I will not give up, I hope I can either provide help or work on the code myself to get this fixed...

soap:

--- Quote from: staen on May 14, 2008, 10:15:52 AM ---But at least the "restoring to manufacturer settings" in itunes should have given a correctly formated partition, or am I wrong?

--- End quote ---
As I understand the iTunes restoration process, the partition table is not touched, only the format and firmware.
So you'll end up with a FAT32 partition with Apple firmware correctly on it, but still whatever non-stock partition layout you made.

GodEater:

--- Quote from: soap on May 14, 2008, 09:37:32 PM ---As I understand the iTunes restoration process, the partition table is not touched, only the format and firmware.
So you'll end up with a FAT32 partition with Apple firmware correctly on it, but still whatever non-stock partition layout you made.

--- End quote ---

Caveat: I've not tried this, but :

I'd be very surprised if the "Restore to factory settings" in iTunes didn't recreate the partition table properly - esp, if you erase all the partitions completely.

staen:
I checked it: it does recreate the partition table. I've tried it by creating a bogus one. Afterwards I has the standard partitions.

I saw this article the author says, the error turns up after updating to firmware 1.3. My Ipod had the newest firmware from the beginning. Is there a chance to try it with an older version?

Addition

Now I checked my other Ipod, where rockbox runs perfectly. Both are the same Modell (MA446LL) and have the same harddisc (TOSHIBA MK3008GAL, Firmware BU111A). The only difference is that the working one has the Apple firmware 1.2.1

I tried copying the bootpartition and the mbr but still had no luck.

I think that the new firmware does something to the disc layout or the formating of the Music partition which isn't simply reverted by copiing the old firmware.

What I try now is dd'ing the music partition from the working ipod to the new one - if this works we know it could have to do something with the formating. But this will take a while...

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