1TB Rockbox'ed ipod video possible?

[TexasRockbox]

The ipod uses a ZIF connector for the 1.8" drive, many 2.5" are SATA.  Physical size limitations aside (requiring fabricating a new enclosure) has anyone attempted to adapt a 2.5" SATA drive to the iPod Video 5.5g ZIF?  Battery supply/capacity would be another hurdle.

I see plenty of ZIF (drive) to SATA adapters but no SATA (drive) to ZIF adapters.

Any thoughts?

Thank you!

[torne]

Chips which can bridge ATA drives onto SATA controller ports are fairly common, but people generally don't do the opposite. They exist, but are rare in any form factor, let alone 1.8"/ZIF/etc.

[tng2000]

I'm trying this now. I got the adapter from deal extreme (IDE only) I just added a sata converter and hooked it all up.
Right now I'm struggling with getting my ipod to boot off this new drive. Once I get it to boot, then I'll work on using all the space...

[Carson Dyle]

I'm also interested in the possibility of doing this.

Has anyone managed to get a 2.5" drive to work? And then how well did Rockbox handle it?

I would think you'd also need a much larger battery to run an iPod with a 2.5" drive for any reasonable length of time.

[saratoga]

I doubt you'd be able to run a larger drive off the internal power supply anyway.  Probably not enough current to spin it up.

[Carson Dyle]

Makes sense.

Would the standard Rockbox build for the iPod Video work with and recognize all of the drive? Say a 1 TB model.

[torne]

Yes, unless it has 4KB sectors and fails to emulate unaligned accesses. This should not be a problem with 2.5" drives, since any drive that is intended to work in a normal computer (laptop) *must* do this otherwise normal PC operating systems won't work. Some 1.8" drives suck, though 

[TexasRockbox]

I doubt you'd be able to run a larger drive off the internal power supply anyway.  Probably not enough current to spin it up.

Size, voltage & current would definitely be issues to overcome.

2.5" drives are (usually?) 5vdc rather than 3.3vdc.

I have a Vosonic VP8870 (lousy firmware) that uses a 3.7vdc Lithium-Ion battery.  It has a voltage converter to get the 5vdc necessary for the drive.  Battery life is pretty bad -- even with SSD.  Still, WD and others have introduced 1TB 9.5mm height 2.5 SATA drives.