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Is it possible to use Toshiba MK2431GAH on Gigabeat S?

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psycho_maniac:
so this doenst work with the orignial firmware correct? i know this is far fetched but couldnt there be a custom built rockbox firmware to take complete control of gigabeat s to override this problem?

ej0rge:
Well the S is very particular about the way that the hard drive is partitioned and formatted. Which is unfortunate because the partition table it prefers is technically invalid, and because of that, normal fdisk utilities decline to perform it.

The good news is that the OF boot loader recovery mode will do it for you.

When i put an MK1214GAH in an S60, getting it formatted was pretty much as easy as physically installing the hard drive and turning it on. The boot loader went into recovery mode, I used sendfirm to push it the NK.bin from the v1.1 OF, and it did it's thing and booted up into the OF. Then i followed the normal procedure to rockbox it.

But the MK1231GAL is a very different piece of hardware and it doesn't even fully respond to normal ATA initialization strings and get properly identified. I don't know if it's "encrypted", intentionally crippled, or just weird. But it doesn't work.

If it's just that it has bizarre firmware and somewhere out there is a version of the firmware that works, maybe some day some sort of hack will be available to make the drive work. But I don't think that's going to happen this week or next.

psycho_maniac:
just buy 2 beasts and put 120gb hard drives in them. problem solved LOL

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