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[Solved]: Looking for help: iRiver H140 with Toshiba MK2431GAH
DTSyX:
Eureka!!!!
I found a solution to the large HDD problem on the H140!
Just a few minutes ago I found the following thread:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,27190.msg185957.html#msg185957
The user TriTL mentions the bootloader 7pre4 which can be found for download here:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IriverFlashing#Issues_with_the_bootloader
Just as explained here
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IriverFlashing#Upgrading_the_bootloader
I just copied the bootloader.iriver file into my .iriver folder on my iriver (with the original hdd still installed, of course), long pressed the joystick and selected iriver_flash as executing plugin. Then there came a message asking if I wanted to install/flash, and I pressed "play" to confirm. After a few seconds there was a "success" info.
That's it, that's all.
After installing the new hdd the player booted like usually and I can finally use my H140 with that monster with 240GB! Finally using the H140 as a FLAC-player has come reality for me. No more crappy low res ogg (which was still ok) or having to use the iriver-OS with it's limitations to the number of files and folders which make it practically impossible to use it as a 240GB-player.
So, thanks again to the Rockbox developers in general for that great liberation for music players and a special thanks to TriTL for bringing that solution to my attention!
Regards,
DTSyX
iRiverer:
First of all, thx DTSyX for spreading the good news that one can use larger Harddrives.
I did the procedure, but sadly I encountered problems. Now I'm not sure if something went wrong with the flashing procedure or the bootloader is buggy, I mean, its a pre Release.
After the flashing, I installed my new hdd. It booted fine, but because i had nothing installed on it except rockbox, no music was on it to test. So I plugged it to my computer, and restored a backup of my old hdd on it with all my music. Than I installed rockbox new with the rockbox installer. The iRiver booted, but I think the Theme was the standard Theme and I think the standard font was used. And all was in English, before I had german on it. So I tried to change the settings, but when I went on languages for example, I pushed the navi on it, the red light flickered but nothing else happened. Very strange. So I wanted to test the music playback, but when I went on a mp3 file, a message of this kind appeared:
"*Panic* dir entry 2 in sector 5 failed". Luckily I could reset via the play button (my reset button seems not to be working anymore :( ).
So I restartet, but I got the same error message every time I tried to play music, I tested it with different mp3's.
After error checking the disk (no errors), I copied the original rockbox folder (also version 3.9.1) from my old hdd to the new hdd. This time, I have my old theme, language is german and the music plays fine. But there still seems to be problems.
Wenn I navigate through the menues, the navi is not always working correctly. Sometimes when I push down, the cursor does nothing. On other times, the menues switch without me pushing any buttons. And when I want to activate automatic resume, the player says the database is not ready and if I want to initialize it. But the automatic resume should have nothing to do with the database!?
DTSyX, do you have similar problems? Can anyone tell me, what the reason may be? Could it be the new bootloader?
Before restoring the backup, I formated the new hdd with fat32, and sectorsize 4092. Was this correct or can the error lie there?
And strangely, I have seen that the hdd has 2 partitons on it, the one I use which has almost all the 160GB, and another one with only 10 Megabyte, it says not in use. I wanted to get rid of it, but I didn't know how, so I didn't touch it. Could this be another source of the error?
And a last question, DTSyX, have you loaded the rockbox into your ROM or RAM, like it is said in the guide you linked? It says it has advantages, but I don't know what they are exactly, for now I still start rockbox from hdd.
Post Merge: November 17, 2011, 11:14:13 AMIt's getting more and more strange.
Rockbox doesn't seem to care which settings I make. They are shown in the settings menu, but take no effect.
And the navi seems to take actions of its own. Can anyone help me plz?
DTSyX:
Ok,
sorry you experience such problems. I hope they get solved!
As for the 10MB partition. I'm not sure what the correct technical explanation is, but it's by design. Might have something to do with the FAT32 file system.
As for the problems. I havent't experienced such problems so far. I've hardly used the player for actual listening as I'm currently about to reencode all my cds to the flac format.
But I had some freezing. But that also happened before, so I'm not really concerned. And I'm also not surprised as it is a pre-version of a bootloader. I noticed some lagging sometimes (looked like the player froze, but after a while he reacted again).
I used the fat32formatter to format the hdd. Then I copied all the files from the original hdd. That was at the time, when I learned that doing just that won't get rockbox running on the large drive. And now I just copied the bootloader file into the .rockbox folder and "flashed" it. That's all.
I didn't do anything else. So no copying "the roxbox into ROM or RAM".
My setting are still the same as on the original drive, and I changed them a lot, created my own theme and so on.
But if settings get mixed up, I'd check the "line of command" or simply delete the .rockbox folder and install rockbox again. When I say "line of command" I think of checking config.cfg, see if the files it points to are all there, also in the right place, not write protected, no typos, then checking each of these files. Perhaps one of these got screwed up and only contains crappy characters (compare to the original hdd to see what each should look like).
Sorry, I can't help you more. But that not only means that I'm not one of the pros here, but also that I have none of those problems myself, yet. So there might be hope.
I'd say, if the flashing process went without errors, then it's "just" a problem of the "rockbox-os", meaning something is not right within the .rockbox folder rather than something being wrong with the player itself, i.e. RAM, ROM. But that's just my guess.
I hope, You'll get the problem solved quick, easy and painless.
DTSyX
iRiverer:
Thanks for your reply.
Good to know the 10MB Partition is normal, one potential error source eliminated. I used fat32 formater to for formating the drive, too. Do you remember which sector size you chose? As I said, I used 4096, and I'm still fearing this might be another source of error, but I don't want to format again on suspection and recopy, because this is a very time consuming process.
The line of command checking is a good idea, I will do that when I am at windows PC to which I can connect the iRiver. But I am not very hopefull in this, because I copied the rockbox folder from my old hdd so it will probably be alright.
Reinstalling rockbox is another possibility, but like I wrote, when I installed it, I had much more problems and errors, since I copied the folder over I can at least listen to my music.
Btw is it normal that it takes almost 20 minutes to copy the rockbox folder? It has about 2800 files and 56MB, it seems a bit long for this little amount of data.
As for the screwed up navigation in the menu, the more I think about it, the more I'm afraid the navi may got broken when I opened the player to switch the hdd. But I just switched the hdd, did nothing else, and I switched it in the past a few times without any problems.
How likely is it to screw the navi by opening the player?
DTSyX:
I think 20 minutes for transferring just 56MB is definitively too much. In that amount of time I transferred 10-20GB.
But maybe here's you problem: I just checked my drive. The sector size of that partition is 512 bytes. When checking fat32formatter right now, I don't see anywhere an option to select the sector size...
Not sure if you could damage the joystick by just exchanging the hdd. I did this several times, nothing ever happend.
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