AJBR 20 v1 maximum hard drive size for USB?

[ee0r]

I have a (mostly) still working AJBR 20 v1 that I purchased new at BestBuy in 2002 and is still my primary portable media device. I love this device beyond all reason.  I've replaced the batteries at least six times, and the hard drive probably four times. I'm running Rockbox 2.5 .

The Archos had been spending most of its time sitting on top of the stereo lately, constantly plugged in and feeding audio to the AUX jacks, but a couple of months ago I decided to take it out for a walk and that's when the fun started.

I've replaced the hard drive and batteries, and fixed all the loose solder joints inside that I could find. It's still a bit touchy on charging, but it does charge if I'm careful with the plug. Seems to play fine, so I've maybe fixed everything easily fixable on it.

New problem today, though. I tried to add some new albums to it via USB, and I get the error:

Unable to create the folder 'New Folder'

The drive cannot find the sector requested.

Is my new hard drive (160 GB, smallest I could buy at the store) too large for the interface or something? Would newer Rockbox help? Should I buy a smaller hard drive mail order? What's the largest known good hard drive size?

I have a USB/IDE cable I used to format the drive, but pulling the hard drive just to add new files to it would be kind of a pain. Looks like I'd have to pull the hard drive to upgrade Rockbox, so maybe I should just bite that bullet.

[gevaerts]

See http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/BigDisk

[ee0r]

See http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/BigDisk

Thanks! I did look first, I promise, but I couldn't find this by browsing and apparently my search-fu is inadequate. Thanks for posting and thanks to user HarrisonTu for posting pre-compiled versions to support this.