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256GB mSATA SSD for iPod 5g/5.5g - possible with current release of Rockbox?
torne:
Haven't had time to look at it more, sorry.
DMinor:
--- Quote from: torne on March 04, 2013, 07:35:17 AM ---Haven't had time to look at it more, sorry.
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Do you think if the problem could be due to the hardware (i.e. mSATA drive and/or the adapter)?
torne:
Not if it works in the Apple firmware, by definition.
Sigies:
I presently have an 256GB mSATA on a iMOD and eagerly waiting to have it Rockboxed, as well. THANKS!
torne:
OK, I have it booting and able to play music and generally operate, by just disabling the sanity check for whether the ATA registers are writable/readable correctly. It looks like the SATA interface doesn't implement reading back of the four address registers properly, and this is not normally important in usage of parallel ATA devices that aren't cdrom drives, which is why the original firmware works.
It still doesn't work properly, though: writing to the drive in Rockbox mostly doesn't work. It manages to save its settings, playlist control files, etc, but initialising the database hangs when it tries to write the database to disk, and while reading the device over usb works fine, you can't write to it.
So, I'll need to look at it some more, but this is a good start ;)
If you want to try this on your own device, comment out the call to check_registers() in firmware/drivers/ata.c and build; that was enough to get the one I have here to boot. But, don't expect it to work properly.
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