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H10: CF card size/brand issues when replacing 1.8" Hitachi drive

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karashata:
I would doubt the bootloader is looking for a specific sized partition, I would suspect it would boot a larger regular drive just as easily as the one it's shipped with as long as the firmware files are on the drive.  However, being as I can't currently afford to buy a larger replacement drive for my H10, I can't confirm this.

It seems likely that the bootloader can't recognize the CF card as a drive and therefore can't boot it.


--- Quote from: petur on August 19, 2008, 06:08:43 PM ---There are actually two bootloaders at work here: on is from iriver and sits in the flash, it might very well be this one isn't upgradeable. We certainly have no replaceable rockbox version for this.
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It is upgradeable, however it doesn't seem that it required much upgrading from the first version.  That being said, if you run the MTP updater utility to upgrade the H10's firmware, it will still upgrade the bootloader to the newest version as well.  I believe it's the bootloader itself that performs the upgrade by looking for the appropriate file on the root of the device (BL_H10.rom for the 5/6 GB models or BL_H10_20GC.hex for the 20 GB model) and flashing that file to the flash rom.  It could be possible to replace the firmware by creating a custom version of that file, however I suspect there would be a very large risk of turning an otherwise-working H10 into a brick with a broken bootloader.

Mad Cow:
Remember that the CF card has to support ATA specs, most don't, so they don't work with rockbox. Look through other CF replacement threads in the forums and try a card that is known to work in other players. I think that the high capacity A-Data cards work.

CSlick:
You are exactly correct - I put in an A-Data 266x Turbo card and it worked on the first shot.  I'll have to do more digging now though on the CF cards in general....I haven't seen a good collection of information on the ATA specs of different manufacturers' cards.

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