Convert Studio 20 to home unit?

[JimmyNeutron]

Hey guys. I have a spare Studio 20 unit. I'd like to convert it into a permanent home deck. I have a lot of experience building home media servers so I think this would be a very cool project. I am thinking of gutting the unit and mounting it and the power supply into a full size stereo type housing, add a large hard drive, and expand the display for more information. It would be easy enough to add all my music in here thru a USB connection to my other server and do the transfers. But I have a few questions first that maybe someone here can answer.
1: Can a larger display be substituted to elliminate the scrolling effect of the smaller one?
2: Can multiple hard drives be used or is the limit just one hard drive at 128 gigs?
3: Since the unit will be AC powered all the time and power consumption won't be an issue, can I add a 7200 rpm 120 gig hard drive for storage instead of the smaller and slower laptop type drives?

Thanks for your help!!!

Jimmy

[yet_mae]

1. i dont know. only the rockbox devs can tell you that
2. only one, i think. you will need to mod your Studio to be able to have 2 hds and read from both. again only a dev can tell you more
3. yes. just make sure you unplug it from time to time because if it over heats.....

[[IDC]Dragon]

I was also playing with that idea, but find a streaming client more practical these days. I ended up having none of both yet.

Anyway: yes, you can of course scrap such a player to become home stereo equipment. The Studio device may in fact be a bit better suited to this because it has a seperate DAC.
You can fit a desktop drive, if you find a way of adapting it to the smaller plug. Bear in mind the USB bridge can access only one disk and 137 GB (no BigLBA), anything above is wasted. Or you switch the disk(s) to a different USB adapter but that's mory tricky.

Rockbox' ATA driver is internally prepared for multiple drives and/or partitions, this was necessary for the Ondio. It dosn't do BigLBA, but this could be added.

If you change the display, you need to adapt the code for that, too. Use a display that supports serial (SPI) control.

Jörg