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Toshiba 320gb hard drive in which player?

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george99:
are there any players out there that will support the 1.8" toshiba 320gb hard drive?

if not, what player under rockbox can act as a true usb host and let me hook up a usb hard drive to it and play music files from the hard drive?

LambdaCalculus:
If the drive has a ZIF connector to connect it to the board, then you should be able to use it in any device that has this connector, or with an adapter.

Rockbox shouldn't have any issues with this large of a drive, but it doesn't hurt to try it out to see what kind of results you get.

Devices that use a hard drive with a ZIF connector include the iPod video, Gigabeat X, and Gigabeat S.

AlexP:
It won't work in the gigabeat S as the OF bootloader will have a fit on anything over 128 GB.

I think torne had a potential strategy, but it involves partitions with non-standard properties and multi drive Rockbox builds, ...  I've probably got the details wrong here, but it remains non-trivial.

torne:
It also depends if Toshiba have helpfully released yet another drive with a braindamaged firmware that doesn't support unaligned sector accesses; if it's broken like some of their other drives it will need a custom build of Rockbox for whichever player you use. (the change is trivial, though).

And yes, there's a theoretical way of making large drives work on the Gigabeat S but nobody has yet tried it for me; I don't have a large drive to try it out. People are welcome to contact me if they want a go, though ;)

george99:
how about the older gigabeat models or cowon, iriver, etc

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