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

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CSlick:
I have previously done as you suggested, and copied the files from the ZIF drive onto the CF card (via a USB card reader), & tried to boot the iRiver...still get the System Files Missing error.

It seems like we should be able to use the iRiver manual firmware updater to load our own modified bootloader file?

karashata:
I would believe that you could simply place a modified version of the bootloader file (BL_H10.rom or BL_H10_20GC.hex) onto the root of the device and the bootloader should automatically update itself.  That being said, if the modified bootloader was broken somehow (didn't initialize something correctly, for example) and rendered the device unusable, it would be impossible to fix.  This is why it's much easier just to replace the H10.mi4 or H10_20GC.mi4 file in the System folder on the H10's disk:  no risk of bricking the device due to an improperly flashed or broken bootloader.

CSlick:

--- Quote from: Llorean on August 19, 2008, 03:06:10 PM ---I think one problem will be that the H10 has code in flash that runs first, and it has to recognize the card. The "System Files Missing" message is, I believe, coming from code that runs before you ever get to any part of Rockbox.

--- End quote ---

Would you think that flashing with the Rockbox bootloader might fix this problem?  I don't know if CF support is built specifically into the Rockbox bootloader, firmware or both?...

petur:
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.

The rockbox bootloader sits on the disk itself and has the name of the iriver firmware, so we let the iriver bootloader launch our bootloader.

If the bootloader in flash doesn't recognize the card, then we have baaaad luck. But maybe there is something wrong with your partition on the card?

CSlick:

--- Quote ---If the bootloader in flash doesn't recognize the card, then we have baaaad luck. But maybe there is something wrong with your partition on the card?
--- End quote ---

I have tried multiple brands and storage capacities of CF cards, all of which, when examined with my laptop (via USB card reader) say the partition is formatted and healthy.  I am currently using a 1GB Pretek, as that is the only size/brand combination I've found the H10 will even read the drive information from.

Is there a certain size partition the bootloader looks for (i.e. the size of the original Hitachi HDD)?  I think we could spoof this information if necessary...

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