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Gauss:
I've got almost a month ago an iRiver iHP-140. The 40GB HD has already some failing sectors, anyway I'm really happy using it paired with my iBasso D12.

I'm looking to replace the HD. I've found the popular 120GB MK1214GAH to be really expensive, I'd rather go for a bigger HD if possible than paying that much. Some people complain about the performance speed with the former HD, I found it acceptable so I'm not looking into SSDs.

Any chance someone around here with an iRiver H120, iHP-120, H140 or iHP-140 H100 series with a big Hard Drive?

I've found on the Rockbox page this:
2010-05-26: Upgraded/replaced hard disks are now supported on all disk-based players (except Archos). Drives over 137GB and drives with large physical sectors are both supported.

So I'm wondering, anyone that already had tried it?

I'm tempted on getting a Toshiba MK2431GAH 240GB. I have read about success but from people that also recompiled Rockbox before the time of the mentioned change. Would it be possible to just swap the Hard Drive now that I'm using the latest Rockbox version (3.7.1) without having to recompile Rockbox?

Sorry to make again the question but I've only found outdated info.

tomlemes:
Hello Gauss,

Did you make any progress on this? I want to get rid of the original HD on my iHP-140 and it'd be great to get something decent sized (for me, anything from 60GB up would be good). I saw on wikipedia a mention that "120GB MK1214GAH ZIF" can be used. Sounds good to me, but I don't want to shell out the money only to find that it doesn't fit or that I'll need a soldering iron and a degree in electronics to get it in. Any information or links to information would be gratefully received! :)

Cheers, Tom

TriTL:
Hi,

think this would help.

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,27634.msg182375.html#msg182375

found out that drives with up to 80 gig works without any modifications.

for anything bigger you'll need the bootloader 7pre4 which worked just fine with a 160 gig drive in my h120.

some say that this could break your player but i had never problems with this...using it for about 6 month.
you only have to keep the bootloader in the rockbox folder when updating it.

240 gig drives are about 95 € from china at ebay including shipment.

DTSyX:
That's one interesting info. Thanks.
I was looking for a possibility to run a MK2431GAH on a H140, but so far I didn't succeed.

(I decribed the steps I took in the thread that I started some weeks ago looking for a solution for exactely that problem: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,28808.msg186099.html#msg186099)

You literally made my day, and in iriver-portable-high-quality-audio-listening-terms you made my week, month and year!

It really works and is a piece of cake compared to all the firmware manipulating stuff I was reading about in this forum, which put me on hold...

So, thanks a lot for that info!

Greetings,

DTSyX

TriTL:
very good to hear somebody who tested this on a 240 gig device :)
I'm about to do so on christmas.

As i said: keep in mind to keep the modified bootloader file in your rockbox directory.
If you delete it you are no longer able to boot rockbox.

Don't know anymore but i think i could not even access the drive...
I had this problem already and it took me some time to get it working again.

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