Rockbox Development > New Ports
porting RockBox to a Mp3/MP4 player with Manufacturer's cooperation
portable:
Oh, by the way, the OS for this player is run directly from ROM (I think), definitely not from HDD like Ipod. Hence, it can basically "run" without the HDD.
Does it make it easier or harder to port Rockbox over?? If Rockbox only install on HDD, then nothing can go wrong with the player regardless what you do I guess. Since a simple format/re-partition will get rid of Rockbox. ???
Mascot:
that player looks pretty nice i wouldnt mind a 120gb player if rockbox was ported to it it would definetly look in to buying one.
i am interested though as how it would be used as rockbox is open source and free and for a company to make money off the code thats been writen by all the developes for free over the years is not very fair.
portable:
--- Quote from: Mascot on May 04, 2006, 12:49:47 AM ---that player looks pretty nice i wouldnt mind a 120gb player if rockbox was ported to it it would definetly look in to buying one.
i am interested though as how it would be used as rockbox is open source and free and for a company to make money off the code thats been writen by all the developes for free over the years is not very fair.
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I would say that the company won't really earn money by "selling" rockbox, it is more like the company sell the hardware which is certified to use RockBox (depending how the porting turns out, maybe rockbox will be an optional feature rather than the default OS). Probably similar to Sun Microsystem offer their software as open source but sell their hardware to run the software to earn money.
Basically in terms of HDD capacity, it is dependent on the HDD manufacturer. The player itself is capable of taking any PATA HDD. However, the current player is limited to maximum of 3 FAT32 partition. And FAT32 had is limited to 32GB per partition. Hence, the usable space directly accessible by this player won't go higher than 100GB. However, other partitions, such as NTFS can be accessible on the computer as removable mass storage device, and can be used to store any files you like.
By the way, 2.5" HDD up to 200GB had been announced but the max in the market right now is only 120GB.... ;)...
Bagder:
The 32GB limit is most likely just a firmware limit that Rockbox won't suffer from. FAT doesn't have such a limit and nor does ATA. It would surprise me if the actual limit (if there is any) is below 128GB in the same style the Archos has it - which is due to the ATA-USB bridge chip.
And there already are 160GB 2.5" disks available.
portable:
--- Quote from: Daniel Stenberg on May 04, 2006, 01:24:54 AM ---The 32GB limit is most likely just a firmware limit that Rockbox won't suffer from. FAT doesn't have such a limit and nor does ATA. It would surprise me if the actual limit (if there is any) is below 128GB in the same style the Archos has it - which is due to the ATA-USB bridge chip.
And there already are 160GB 2.5" disks available.
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Well, the 32GB limit is in reality Windows's inability to format FAT32 for anything >32GB. If you find a utility to format >32GB, then it won't be a problem. However, I have not found any open source or free utility to do this yet.....any pointers would be apprecipated..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32
This article indicates that FAT32 can in theory support up to 8 Terabyte partition.
As to 160GB HDD, as far as I know, it had not arrived in NZ yet....Maybe available in other countries which I am not aware of.
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