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Bricked Ipod Video 5.5gen after rockbox install?

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saratoga:
As I said before, if it doesn't mount in EMD then its physically broken. 

I'd double check that you were really in EMD, then look for a new MP3 player. 

ayden40:
I've traveled all over the world with this ipod over the last 7 years and it's never missed a beat. I install Rockbox software and while it's updating the database, it becomes bricked.

There was no physical damage. Sounds like Rockbox firmware ruined the HD. But of course according to the programmers, rockbox has never bricked anything.  Wrong.  I can't use it after installing rockbox. It's a brick to me. Thanks for ruining my ipod.

saratoga:
If the hard drive is 7 years old and making a weird noise when it tries to spin up that sounds like the disk crashed.  They do have a limited lifespan.

I don't think it's possible for a software crash to cause physical damage to an ipods disk, or at least no one has reported that before. it is possible to brick many other devices, but not ipods. Thry are quite well designed.

soap:
ayden40, you have perfectly described a dead HDD - saratoga stressed the word "physically broken" not to imply you played football with the iPod but rather to emphasize every symptom you describe is emblematic of hardware failure - not software.

And while the timing may be coincidental I rather suspect an honest evaluation would lead one to conclude that it is far more plausible that you had a hardware failure coincidental with your attempted install of Rockbox (as improbable as that may be) than to believe that tens of thousands of people have (and do!) run this firmware daily on iPods for years and years but that you are the first to suffer the consequences!

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