max capacity in Rockbox for ipod photo hard drive upgrade?

[PickupBetty]

Hello--I hope I'm posting to the correct topic.

I would like to upgrade the hard drive in my 20gb ipod photo to 60gb.  It occured to me to check for any issues, since I plan to use Rockbox exclusively and not itunes.

Does anyone know of any Rockbox reason I should not upgrade?  Thanks!

[froggyman]

you may want to check if it is the same thickness as your old one ; if it is thicker you will need a different backplate

[PickupBetty]

Thanks, froggyman.  I didn't know that you could change the thickness just by swapping backplates.

It just occurred to me that my question should probably go in "Database"

Thanks again.

[froggyman]

you wont have any problems with the DB or with rockbox assuming you dont go over 137GiB.

you would need a biggr backplate though if the drive is thicker

[cool_walking_]

assuming you dont go over 137GiB.

It's 128GiB, which is approximately 137GB.

[PickupBetty]

Thanks, guys!  Exactly what I needed to know.

[catnap]

I have recently installed Rockbox on my 60Gb iPod colour. I tested it with a few songs and it seemed to perform well. When I transferred the rest of my 55Gb music collection on to it performance dropped dramatically. Changing from one menu to the next or going back from playing a song took a long time, maybe 10/15 seconds, which is quite frustrating.

I'm not sure if this is something to do with my iPod or with the Rockbox firmware but just thought I would let you know my experiences.

[Chronon]

catnap: Play with directory cache and loading the database to RAM.  This avoids having to spin up the disk every time you want to browse.

[catnap]

Correct me if I am wrong but these parameters are only valid if you use the Database function. It is not used for the File browsing (which I use). Or is that not the case?

[cool_walking_]

The directory cache is still applicable.

[Chronon]

It's as cool_walking_ says.  I mentioned both since I didn't know how you were browsing.

[catnap]

I switched on dir cache. I can't believe how much faster it is. Thanks guys.

Now I need to work out how to get it to charge, but that's another story.