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Is it possible to use Toshiba MK2431GAH on Gigabeat S?

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cool_walking_:
The expression is "couldN'T care less".  If you *could* care less, you do care about the thing.

I don't want to use the OF either.  Rockbox itself can access the whole disk just fine, but there is a problem with the OF bootloader which prevents making use of the drive's full capacity.

I don't quite know what I'm talking about here, but it seems to be that Rockbox on the Gigabeat S still relies on the OF bootloader.  The OF doesn't seem to support LBA48, so it creates the storage partition at only ~127GiB.  This causes a problem, because the OF bootloader cracks a shit when I fiddle with the partitions.

When enlarging the storage partition to take up the whole disk or creating a second partition past the 128GiB mark, the OF loader sits there doing nothing except looking pretty on an error message screen (#3, then #1, then #2 when it's connected to a PC) until I do a firmware upgrade with sendfirm to restore it to working order.  The drive's contents are left intact, (except of course the partition holding the nk.bin file, which is updated) but it's quite impractical to have to connect to a PC every second boot in order to get the Gigabeat running again.  If I do nothing except shrink the partition to a size smaller than the OF created it at, it gets formatted (error screen #4) at next boot.

From Unhelpful's comment on IRC (linked in my previous post), it seems like the real solution to this is to take the OF bootloader out of the picture.  I don't know how feasible this is, but until it's done, it seems like only 128GiB of the disk can be used.

AlexP:
Have you tried a multivolume build yet?  Whilst not ideal it would seem better than losing the space altogether.

cool_walking_:
Gigabeat S has a compile error with HAVE_MULTIVOLUME defined.  Anyway, the OF loader did the "error 3, 1, 2" thing when I created a third partition.

EDIT: Hmm, it seems that not even just *leaving the partitions alone* (which I thought was safe) makes the OF happy.  I'd gone back to that arrangement just so I could get some use out of the disk, and it's now doing the "3, 1, 2" thing.

AlexP:
Did you ever update the OF?  There were some unsubstantiated potential reports that the updated OF is more picky.  I'd love to try this myself (mainly because I've never had any OS related issues whereas others have), but I can't justify buying the drive seeing as it probably won't work :/

Good luck, maybe there is a magic formula!

cool_walking_:

--- Quote from: AlexP on May 31, 2009, 04:23:03 AM ---Did you ever update the OF?
--- End quote ---
Nope, but maybe the person who had it before me did.
The Settings -> Information -> Portable Media Center screen says:

--- Quote ---Version 2.11 (632)
gigabeat S
Platform Version 1.1 (632.4)
--- End quote ---

That probably doesn't mean anything though, since the nk.bin I used to restore the OF was the one that someone put on rapidshare and linked from the wiki a while ago.


--- Quote ---Good luck, maybe there is a magic formula!
--- End quote ---
I don't know what else to try.

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