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Any easier way to compile?

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Obstinate:
What else would i need? I believe it's a similar defect.

torne:
It's *very unlikely* to be, because the original ipod video drive violates the ATA spec for large sectors in a quite dramatic and impressive way. The spec was barely complete at the time the drive was designed, though, so this is perhaps forgivable. There's little excuse for more recent drives to not emulate single-sector accesses; I would be surprised if it didn't. It's not difficult to do, and it doesn't cost anything to support it on every drive you make once you've implemented it for *any* drive.

You would need to be able to mount the drive somehow to install Rockbox; it doesn't matter whether Rockbox supports it or not if you have no way to put it on there. If the original firmware can't do it, then you would probably have to connect the drive to a PC directly, or put it in another MP3 player which can mount it...

Obstinate:
Do 4th gen iPods with 20 GB drives support ATA? I think that can work perhaps in iTunes.

torne:
ATA is the kind of hard disk, not a feature. I don't know if the original firmware of a 4th gen iPod can use drives with large sectors; ipodvideo can, but I don't know if any of the others do.

Without knowing more about the drive (I can't find any useful information about it) it's hard to say what will work and what won't.

Obstinate:
This is too difficult. The drive isn't working in the iPod either. I'll just stick with the MK8025GAL.

Or is it possible to use any Samsung single-platter drives? I haven't heard anything about those.

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