Third Party > Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players
HDD upgrade Toshiba MK3006GAL doesn't mount. At all.
linuxstb:
After you plug your player into Linux, what does the "dmesg" command display? (type "dmesg" in a terminal - you may need to do this as the root user, or with "sudo dmesg")
There should be some references to a new USB mass storage device.
Serenity:
Wow. "dmesg" displays a metric ton of info about my machine. After it finds the USB ports, it moves on. No reference to anything plugged in. Let me know if you'd like a quote (and how I can get around retyping everything).
Pinning my hopes now on the external enclosure, whenever that gets here.
Thanks for the help and info; I'll keep you updated on my (possible) success.
Multiplex:
--- Quote from: Serenity on December 21, 2009, 06:17:27 PM ---No reference to anything plugged in.
--- End quote ---
That sounds like my experience with XP (I'm now fairly sure that I used the XP Disk Manager) - with the H300 nothing showed up, but it did with the H100. Can't be sure - it was a good while ago.
peteswensson:
I have run into various roadblocks when trying to install new hard drives in my iriver h300 players, so I will share some thoughts on things you might try.
First, if it is a used drive, it may be formatted in NTFS, the native format used by Windows XP (I ran into that once). You would need to reformat it into FAT32, using Swissknife or another freeware program for formatting drives. Also, if it is in NTFS, you may need to reformat it outside of the iriver, since connecting with it via the iriver's USB runs into the NTFS incompatibility problem built into the iriver. I found a 3.5" IDE 44 pin to 1.8" IDE 50 pin adaptor from an eBay store (very cheap, but a weeklong delay for delivery) that allowed me to directly connect the Toshiba drive to my desktop's motherboard, see the drive, and reformat it.
Another time it turned out that the drive I had bought was defective. I was able to determine this using some Seagate hard drive diagnosis software that came with a 3.5" hard drive I had bought for the desktop. That software could be used as a boot drive from the CD it was on, and also could do a FAT32 reformat of the 1.8" Toshiba drive plugged into the above-mentioned adaptor.
Good luck!
Serenity:
Thanks for the info! It probably is NTFS--that would explain its behavior. Still waiting on my enclosure (holiday mail...sigh), but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to format it once it's in a different enclosure from the iRiver. I've Swissknife installed and ready to go as soon as my new toy arrives.
Status update at that time. ;D
Edit: Status update!
The enclosure arrived today. Plugged in the original replacement drive; it was not at all formatted. So I formatted it in Windows Vista as FAT32. Plugged it in to the H320 and (for kicks) tried formatting it in the OF. "Can't Format!"
Back in the enclosure, I unzipped the current build of Rockbox and booted; Rockbox runs nicely. I'm back in business!
Interesting note: for some reason, the Rockbox Bootloader USB Mode doesn't seem to connect to my windows machine, but once I boot into Rockbox, it connects and transfers fine. I don't know if this is an issue, but I don't care--it works just fine for me.
Thank you everybody for your help!!
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