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iriver H340 with 240GB drive - success!

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TexasRockbox:
The iPod Classic uses a CE-ATA drive.  the MK2431GAH utilizes ATA-4.

pwhodges:
True; thanks for the correction. That'll be why they say it only works in the iPod Video, then: http://www.rapidrepair.com/shop/3119-hard-drive-disk-mk2431gah.html.  They also say it doesn't work in a PC or other players, which is simply wrong - which was my point.

Paul

sordup:
Not sure if anyone is checking this thread anymore but:

I've got some questions about this upgrade. I have just made the mistake of purchasing a Toshiba MK1231GAL 120gb drive which definitely is not compatible (not even, apparently, with Windows). Can't even initialize the disk in Windows disk manager. I don't quite understand why previous drives from Toshiba worked fine, and you say this later drive also works, and yet the 1231 will not work. Strange to me, but, anyway...

Has the process outlined in the above post continued to be successful for your H340? Is there anything not mentioned in the post that would be necessary to get that same drive up and running for my own H340?
And, is it still necessary to recompile the Rockbox bootloader for the large drive? I read that Rockbox ver. 3.6 is "large size compatible", so to speak.

Thanks for your time.

Ste-:
I used this drive yesterday in my iAudio X5, and the process was simple connect the drive to the converter, put it in the device. Connect the device, I partitioned it using gparted for a full fat32 partition. and it worked. currently filling the device now and now problems.

Big drives are supported a long time now. Thanks to the work of torne I think it was.

torne:
3.6 supports large drives, but not every target's bootloader has had a new release since then. The h100/h300 bootloader hasn't been updated in a while because the current code in svn appears to brick players, and I don't think that has been fixed yet, so while the h100/h300 builds of Rockbox will handle a large drive just fine, I don't think the bootloader will. Compiling your own bootloader is not recommended because it's known to be broken and there is no way to recover a bad bootloader install without special hardware. There are some old bootloaders around which have been patched with large drive support which predate whatever happened to break it, though, like the one mentioned by the original poster in this thread.

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