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firmware flashing on H300 for CF use

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AlexP:
Yes, the H100 is also very risky to flash.

The point about doing this though, is that once a known good version exists, that risk goes down hugely - e.g. the existing bootloaders that Rockbox releases have been tested a massive amount before release to make them pretty damn safe.

The real problem is developing and testing a new bootloader - if you make a mistake, you can only fix the player with specialist hardware, which very few people (and indeed only LinusN I believe) have.  Once it has been tested and released, OK.

Mamachi:
Thanks for all this information...

Here one more question:
I heard (really not more than a rumour) that it would be possible to hack CompactFlash Cards that way so they behave somehow other... hum, how to describe???
I think this TRANSCEND 32GB Card doesn't somehow support true IDE whatever... (can`t find the link in this moment). So a friend tolled me he heard it would be possible to write a special BIT on those Cards so they are somehow upgraded...

puh... If someone knows something about that -  :o
I will give my best to find out!

EDIT:
I think it is something like CompactFlash programming on:
http://www.compuphase.com/mbr_fat.htm

Edit:
After all I read it should be bit 15 of the CF Card witch returns the player the wrong value of 1 and it should send 0 to be recognised correctly. A guy soldered something together to change this... but as long it isn't something totally easy and softwarebased I will keep my fingers of that.
( http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/hardware/pb150/PB150_and_CompactFlash.html )

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