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256GB mSATA SSD for iPod 5g/5.5g - possible with current release of Rockbox?
DMinor:
Thanks Trone for the update and your efforts are greatly appreciated. Very encouraging news.
DMinor:
--- Quote from: torne on March 16, 2013, 12:53:43 PM ---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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Trone, we can't wait to hear the ultimate news on the mSATA. :)
My dream is to have one affordable 256GB mSATA SSD ipod 5.5g of course Rockbox'ed.
torne:
The communication with the SSD is completely unreliable no matter what I do, it seems; data are corrupted randomly and writing rarely works, and even the basic identifying information about the SSD such as the model name is corrupted randomly when read :/
I need to do some more experiments, but it's really not obvious what the issue is here.
crashtack:
:-(
SpawnHyuuga:
Does anybody have the Super Talent DuraDrive ZT2 installed in an iPod? The reviews on Amazon for the drive itself are rather shaky at best, and I don't want to sink $200 on something that'll fail in 3 months, especially if it's difficult to fix, repair or replace.
I'm highly considering a KingSpec SSD instead, as it's much cheaper.
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