Rockbox on 240 GB Ipod 5.5 ??

[jakobmagnusson]

Hi,
I find various information about putting the Rockbox on a Ipod 5.5 modified with 240 GB (Toshiba MK2431GAH) hard disk. But, I'm not competent to do compiling etc myself..

Is there a "ready to use" version of Rockbox to use on this HW available somewhere? Or could someone be very kind and send me a copy of the version you are using?

Many thanks in advance,
Jakob Magnusson

[torne]

See the release notes for version 3.6: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/MajorChanges

Any size hard drive is now supported by the standard builds. You can use the 3.6 release, or you can use the current builds, both will work fine.

What information have you found which still refers to the need to do a custom build? It should be updated, so if you tell us where we can sort that

[jakobmagnusson]

Hi,
Thanks, great news for me!

I was looking at posts like
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=20629.msg144764#msg144764

but with this post and your clear answer I guess anyone searching for this type of info will be happy

Thanks.

BTW, in what forum should I seek/ask for feedback on peole using 240GB/Ipod 5.5? (if it is reasonable fast running 40.00 somgs etc)?

Regards,
Jakob

[torne]

I was looking at posts like
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=20629.msg144764#msg144764

Right; those are over a year old I just wanted to make sure our documentation doesn't still claim it's not supported anywhere.

BTW, in what forum should I seek/ask for feedback on peole using 240GB/Ipod 5.5? (if it is reasonable fast running 40.00 somgs etc)?

There's not really any point asking for such feedback, because there's no difference. If you have more files on the player, the directory cache will take slightly more memory, which decreases the buffer size slightly, but the worst case is you might lose, say, 0.5% of your battery life as a result? It won't be any slower to use.

[Alexannino]

One more question. I undertood clear? I can put 240gb hdd 2'5 in my iPod Video 30Gb without problems?

[saratoga]

They're 1.8 inch drives, not 2.5 inch, but assuming you get the right model with the right connectors it should work.

[gevaerts]

One more question. I undertood clear? I can put 240gb hdd 2'5 in my iPod Video 30Gb without problems?

Probably not. The 30gb has room for a 5mm thick drive, as opposed to 8mm for the 60gb and 80gb models. I'm pretty sure those 240gb drives are 8mm, so you'll need a new back.

And of course as saratoga said, you need an 1.8" drive, not 2.5". Be careful though, there are several different connector varieties on 1.8" drives, and obviously only one of those will fit in the ipod.

[Alexannino]

What about SDD drive's?

[soap]

What about SDD drive's?

Same caveats as the spinning rust variety.

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HardDriveReplacement

_{EDIT:  It has been brought to my attention perhaps my former sentence is unclear.
The answer to the question "What about SSD drives?" is "The same rules which were mentioned above about traditional HDDs apply."}