Dropouts, skips, file browser lag

[davenh]

Hi.

I'm running rockbox on a 4g 20GB ipod, OS Ubuntu 8.10. Had no problems until recently. Now when I mount the ipod the file browser takes forever and never shows the music folders. If I mount it in disk mode, I can see the files but it's almost too slow to do anything.

Also, random files get dropped out on and go to the next track, and sometimes exhibit skips. It seems to be only a very few files which are affected, and deleting and re-transferring them made the file play a little longer before it dropped off but didn't fix it completely.

Also, when I tried to reinstall a newer version of Rockbox it said there wasn't enough disk space. What should I do? I'm up for anything.

Thanks!

Dave

[woyciesjes]

    What changed at the time the problems started? And what version of Rockbox are you using?

[dreamlayers]

This seems like a bad hard drive.  You're saying problems also happen in disk mode, which means it's not a Rockbox problem.

Go into disk mode and scan the drive for bad sectors.  (eg. In Windows you can open a command prompt window as Administrator and run chkdsk /r)  This can take a long time.