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H320 running CF card - problems

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kokoon:
hi. i'm running RockBox, a very recent version (like a week old), with the custom H300 bootloader that cam be found on http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CFModGuide

the adapter is the kind everybody has, the with a jumper i had to bend.

the card is Transcend 32gb 133x

generally it works. i can transfer music to and from the device, i can play. while playing, there aren't any problems. but sometimes on startup, i get the following errors:

1. totally randomly, but usually when player was off overnight/more than a few hours.
on boot, right after the "Batt: ..." line (that's line 3), it clears the screen and reports:
I03:AddrErr
at 003F2FD2

2. when attaching the USB cable to the turned-off device, again after the "Batt" line 3, "Bootloader USB mode" flashes for a fraction of a second and then clears the screen and reports:
I03:AddrErr
at 003F2B4E

in both cases, i have to reset the player, either by pressing "play", waiting it boots OF, waiting some more so it reports HDD error, then shut it down. or i can just use a safety pin to reset the player.

it's quite annoying actually, are there any other reports of this kind of problem?

scharkalvin:
I get similar errors with my Gigabeat F10 converted using the same kind of CF<->ATA adapter.
Usually a disk read error or file not found during boot.
Sometimes a reboot will work, sometimes I have to power cycle the battery (GB has a switch on the bottom for that), sometimes the flash gets corrupted and I have to re-install rockbox.
(I've sometimes needed to use the windows scandisk on the mounted GB as a USB disk to be able to re-install Rockbox.  I haven't lost any music files though).
I'm using the A-Data 16gb cf in the GB.

kokoon:
hmm... so how do you see this:
1. CF card fault
2. CF-ATA adapter fault
3. player hardware fault (iRiver)
4. RockBox software fault

anyone fixed these errors yet?

wintermute23:
I have an H320 modded with a 32GB 233x RiDATA card. Same adapter, same bootloader, and I've not had any problems, across a wide variety of Rockbox versions (currently running r17705).

Given the very different sets of hardware you're using, it's hard to see where the problem might be. Poor quality control on the adapter, maybe? It might be worth trying another CF card (it only needs to be big enough to fit Rockbox and some sample music on, so there's no need to break the bank), and seeing if you get the same issues.

peteswensson:
I recently did the CF mod on an iriver H320, using a Transcend 8 GB 133x card.  So far no problems whatsoever.  I did use a different adapter than most seem to be using.  Most are using the one linked to on the CFModGuide page in the TWiki, with the link labelled "Here is one example."  I am using the other one, with the link labelled "This product."  The second one is made by Ably-Tech, a firm in Taiwan http://www.ably.com.tw/main.htm.  The link in the Wiki is to a UK retailer, who sells it for about $18 US plus shipping.  I found a US retailer, http://www.ameri-rack.com/APA-CF18T_m.html, who sells it for about $24 US plus shipping.  There are some detailed photos on the Ably-Tech and Ameri-Rack web sites.

I went with the Ably-Tech model PA-CF18T adapter because it is more compact, fitting in the hard drive space more precisely (54x34x4mm WxLxD, vs 56x48x7mm, while the hard drive is 54x78.5.5mm).  In particular, you don't have to bend over the jumper so it doesn't poke the battery, nor trim off some ears so the hard drive pins can seat all the way into the adaptor.

There is another difference, that some of the hardware experts might know the meaning of, because I sure don't.  The jumper has three settings: master, slave, and "USE_HDD_JP."  (See the photos on either of the links above.)  I set my jumper on this third setting.

I know what master and slave settings are for, but I can only speculate about why "USE_HDD_JP" might be different from master.  Cranking my speculator up to level 10, might this setting provide compatibility for some targets that the other adaptor does not?

I did experiment with jumper settings and an old build (Sept. 2007) of Rockbox that includes the Recording Enhancement Pack.  No dice.  None of the jumper settings could take the place of the code changes that the developers made to the current build to enable the CF mod.

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