Need help with a Toshiba MK2431GAH HDD

[tigertom2003uk]

Hi everyone,
I have just bought a Toshiba MK2431GAH HDD for my H340 but I can't get Rockbox to load.
I get a error mesage on the Rockbox bootloader saying: ATA error -32 & it won't go pass that error message!
Does anyone out there know how I can fix this to work on my H340?
I'm not really into pc programming so if you do know how to get this mod to work please make it simple for me to understand so I can make this mod work in my H340.
Regards Tom.

[Serenity]

Isn't that the HDD that only works in the iPod 5.5 and one of the Zunes? There's something about a weird block size.

Seriously, it's an HDD error, and I don't think there's an easy workaround, but maybe check this out:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,24215.0.html

[TexasRockbox]

The HDD works in the Cowon X5L as well - full 240GB!

[Chronon]

Hi everyone,
I have just bought a Toshiba MK2431GAH HDD for my H340 but I can't get Rockbox to load.
I get a error mesage on the Rockbox bootloader saying: ATA error -32 & it won't go pass that error message!
Does anyone out there know how I can fix this to work on my H340?
I'm not really into pc programming so if you do know how to get this mod to work please make it simple for me to understand so I can make this mod work in my H340.
Regards Tom.

If you're still around, I would advise trying the IRC channel.  More developers hang out there and there's a chance one of them will be able to help you.

[torne]

The problem is that there hasn't been a new H300 bootloader released since I made all targets support large hard drives. The actual Rockbox build for H300 will support it just fine, but the bootloader doesn't, which is a problem

There's an unknown problem with the current H300 bootloader code: if you build and flash it you will get a bricked player because the current code just doesn't work. Until this is fixed by someone with the facilities to recover bricked H300s there's a problem

The thread linked above has references to some old H300 bootloaders which are old enough that they aren't broken but have been patched to support large drives, but you flash one of those at your own risk...

As far as I know there is no such thing as a hard drive which will only work in certain players. People keep claiming otherwise and so far they've all disappeared without giving any useful information or it's turned out to be down to large physical blocks without working emulation, which just needs a different Rockbox change to work.