Toshiba Gigabeat S30

[aaronfg]

I have no interest in this player, but did notice that anythingbutippod.com took theirs apart and posted scans of the pcb, etc.

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/06/toshiba-gigabeat-s30-teardown.php

So any Gigabeat users out there that may want RB on your player, some of step 1 seems to be done now.

[markun]

There has been a start in gigabeat S hacking now:

RogerBacon has put his Gigabeat S HDD inside a iPod Video. With the iPod recoverty mode he was able to inspect the HDD. It turns out there are 2 FAT32 partitions. 1 for the firmware and 1 for the media files. I'll inspect the firmware tonight.

From fdisk:

Code: [Select]

Disque /dev/sda: 60.0 Go, 60011642880 octets
64 têtes, 32 secteurs/piste, 57231 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 2048 * 512 = 1048576 octets
Cela ne ressemble pas à une table de partition.
Probablement vous avez sélectionné le mauvais périphérique.

Périphérique Amorce Début         Fin       Blocs   Id  Système
/dev/sda1   ?           1         151      153600    b  W95 FAT32
La partition 1 ne se termine pas sur une frontière de cylindre.
/dev/sda2             151       57232    58451488    b  W95 FAT32
La partition 2 ne se termine pas sur une frontière de cylindre.


[RogerBacon]

Maybe one day guy ! I work on this (but im not a developer).

Thing i do :
-Partition information
-Extract firmware
-Read the bootsector and MBR of my Gigabeat S to my HDD.
-Read the string table
Also, Markun make a list of DLL.

Next step is open the s60 to view the component. (closer picture, trace board circuit ...)
Also, if a developer if interesting to port rockbox to the gigabeat let's me know !
EDIT : You can ask me the system file, partition table information, uncompressed .bin file (tanks to Toffe) and bootsector info/mbr.

[ptw419]

I am very interested in trying to port rockbox to the Gigabeat S series. Unfortunately I am not sure if I have the time, or experience needed to do this. But I am willing to help, or try help start any attempt at this. I have done a little research. Let me put down some of the specific hardware specs I have encountered.

The Gigabeat S series runs off the Freescale i.MX31 MCIMX31 Multimedia Applications Processor(http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX31). This shows up in the Gigabeat S disassembly page:

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/06/toshiba-gigabeat-s30-teardown.php, and is

also confirmed on this Microsoft page :

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/media/gigabeat.mspx.

Per the Microsoft page the S series has a "2.4" QVGA (320 x 240) LCD screen". Per the rockbox Gigabeat F, Gigabeat X port page(http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatInfo), those models use 32MB SDRAM Samsung model#K4S56163PF BG75. The pictures on the Gigabeat Teardown page Samsung model#K4M51323PC-BG75(http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/images/gigabeat-s/gigabeat-s-apart-front.jpg) I believe this is 512MB of memory, but to be sure the specification for this memory is here : http://www.samsung.com/products/semiconductor/MobileSDRAM/MobileSDRSDRAM/512Mbit/K4M51323PC/K4M51323PC.htm.

That is as far as I have gotten. When I get more time I will look into this further. A lot can be found by looking at the pictures of the components in the Gigabeat S Teardown web site, then hunting down the parts on the web, and probably comparing any info by the Rockbox Gigabeat F/X port page. Short of disassembling the Gigabeat, the Teardown page is the best resource at the moment. If anyone can point me in the right direct as far as how to begin porting rockbox, I'd really appreciate it. It would be interesting to find this. Whoever is porting the F/X series may want to help, or consider merging any future ports.

[markun]

Check out the wiki page Aliask made:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatSInfo

[caressmedown]

The Gigabeat S models are the basis for the Zune. Believe they use very similar hardware. Maybe a Zune port can be branched off of this

[TheRedFall]

Maybe a newbie question, but has anyone tried using the Gigabeat F build on an S player? I just got an S60 for Christmas, found out about Rockbox, but don't want to do something stupid and screw it up. Extreme filetype limitations are the most annoying aspect of this thing! Almost enough to drive me crazy!

[Soader03]

The firmware of the F and the S are differents. So, the bootloader too. I'm sure that we have to do modifications to boot and the buttons are not at the same place and many others thing (LCD screen, processor...)

[toffe]

From the service manual of the S30, it seems that you need a cd with the software from Toshiba.

"Ottoman.exe and the scenario file are provided on the CD-ROM
(Material No.: 360058245)"

I never find it. It must be available only to service center.

I am still trying to find it

[toffe]

Good news, the console port of the S30 is now connected and I could see the boot sequence
I still have to find the transmit, I can only see and not do any action

You can see the boot sequence on the wiki of the gigabeatS

[GodEater]

Nice going Toffe!

Looks similar to other WinCE boot sequences I've seen. Perhaps we could ask for help from a team of people who are familiar with hacking that platform, such as the people who port linux to the iPaq series of handhelds? http://www.handhelds.org in case anyone is interested...

Perhaps of particular interest is the HaRET application, which is a bootloader that can be used to launch linux from within the WinCE environment : http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET. Clearly we won't be using it to try to launch a kernel zImage, but perhaps it can be hacked around with to make it launch a rockbox.gigabeats (should we ever produce such an image)

[alienbiker99]

i don't know how much this will help, but there was a firmware update released for the gigabeat v.
http://www.mygigabeat.com/forum/messages.cfm?threadid=D2B6D7E9-3048-2906-EA79AEDE705156DC

[toffe]

Thank you for the help,

Perhaps we can modify the updater to load a modified firmware on the S and why not on a zune..

Wait and see

[alienbiker99]

i think its the best option we have so far, i went to look at the files that it flashes and it has the bin, so it might just need to have the default S patched binaries, unless of course the updater has different security checks

[toffe]

The updater is specific to the v30
 I try it on the S30 and it say not connected
and doesn't continue .

So we have to modify the updater to work with the S