Dual boot on CF moded iriver H120. Succeed!

[f_coco]

Hello all!
I'm a iriver H120 user in P.R.China. This afternoon i just got my H120 CF modded. With the adapter i bought from taobao, both original firmware and rockbox could be used in my H120 now. Here is the link of the adapter http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=193955580. (Sorry! It's in Chinese.) Or you could search Google with "CF2IDE18TCF" to see more information about the adapter.
Hope this post will help!

[littlenick]

Hi,
let's leave the adapter issue for later - I cannot understand how iriver original firmware could run on a CF modded player.
After all original firmware does things related to hdd power supply (spin - up of hdd and so on)
I suppose a missing hdd would cause errors and leave original firmware stuck in many places.
Or am I wrong?
Greetings from Germany
Thomas

[AlexP]

The firmware in a H1x0 is not on the disk, but in flash memory.  A H1x0 without a disk (or with a CF) will happily boot the OF, but will not be able to find the disk and so won't be able to play.  This is why it is important to flash a Rockbox bootloader that can work with CF (7pre4 IIRC) before swapping the disk for CF as you need to flash the bootloader from within the OF, and so the OF needs to be able to see the disk to read the bootloader file.