480 Gigs drive NOW WORKS with ipod 5.5 !

[rbhawaii]

The only minus i see is it uses more power (like double the power so twice less run times per charge)

http://beyondwind.duckdns.org/?page_id=5


here is a quote from one of his comments:
" Dr408517 March 4, 2014 at 8:55 pm   
Beyondwind, this is fantastic. Tested on both 256g BP4 mSata and 480g Crucial mSatas and it works perfectly."

adapter needed:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HP01QXI

custom rockbox firmware:
http://beyondwind.duckdns.org/downloads/rockbox.zip

the drives 120 or 240 or 480 gig
http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-480GB-mSATA-Internal-CT480M500SSD3/dp/B00BQ8RHMO

[gevaerts]

Where's the source for that build?

[viperman3]

the patch file is in the download folder. I already asked him about the diff/patch file and he kindly responded.

http://beyondwind.duckdns.org/downloads/

[rbhawaii]

so far this drive looks to be a better solution

http://www.wintecind.com/oem/SSD/ZIF_PATA/EWS800.html

it already has a zif connector so it does not need the special adapter.
and it needs about half the power

volt x amps = watts

the crucial m500 uses 3 watts of power under load
the wintec appears to use 1.5 watts or 1.75 watts according to this (page eight):

http://www.wintecind.com/oem/datasheets/WintecSSD-WxZFxxxG1TC-E22xx_v1_0.pdf

anyone know anything about this and if it will work?

[rbhawaii]

the patch file is in the download folder. I already asked him about the diff/patch file and he kindly responded.

http://beyondwind.duckdns.org/downloads/

Viperman3 can you contact him again and ask him to join us here his input is much needed here.

[viperman3]

the patch file is in the download folder. I already asked him about the diff/patch file and he kindly responded.

http://beyondwind.duckdns.org/downloads/

Viperman3 can you contact him again and ask him to join us here his input is much needed here.

I have PMed him on the head-fi forum.  Hope he joins the discussion here.

edit: it would appear he already made responses in this post:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,42523.msg227226.html#msg227226

[beyondwind]

Thanks for bring my attention and glad to know that the MOD will work with 480gb drives too, though I am not expecting the half battery life, we are really hitting a hardware limit here because of the high peak current draw of mSATA drive. On average my crucial m500 240GB and adapter only draws 250mA during disk activities, ie, database initialization.

I did enable the UDMA4 & 80MHZ boosting in the patch, it actually improves battery life even on normal 30GB HDD ipod, the extra power consumption by the CPU boosting is much less compare to the energy spend on longer disk I/O poll & disk idling on a slower CPU clock.

I considering myself lucky in being able to tune a few thing for the iPod ata driver to make it work. However, I did that without having any documentation about the portal player 502x chip, ie. register settings about the timing, so pretty much I was just guessing while I was working on it. Wondering if anyone still have the portal player datasheet from the old day?

[saratoga]

No datasheet for portal player hardware has ever been found. 

[rbhawaii]

Beyondwind, welcome to rockbox and thank you for your very big contribution to our ipods.

what do you think about this drive

http://www.wintecind.com/oem/SSD/ZIF_PATA/EWS800.html

it is already a zif and only drains 1.5 watts while your m500 drains 3 watts.
i cant find where to buy this drive yet but im just asking so i know if i should even look for it or not.

[FSN7]

Hi, new user here.  Does anyone have a copy of this rockbox mod they could upload?  I've been trying for weeks to get my 480GB drive working with my iPod 5.5G and this seems to be the solution but the download link appears to be down.

[rbhawaii]

I'm sure when he gets a new site or his current site goes back up it it will be mentioned here:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/566780/official-ipod-video-classic-5g-5-5g-6g-6-5g-7g-ssd-mod-thread/2460

[cereal_killer]

A user on head-fi.org provides a download source for the build, but I have not verified, if it is the build from the user beyondwind.

See this post:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/566780/official-ipod-video-classic-5g-5-5g-6g-6-5g-7g-ssd-mod-thread/2475#post_10348426

Greetings,

c_k

Edit: http://beyondwind.duckdns.org/?page_id=5 is up and the download link http://beyondwind.duckdns.org/downloads/rockbox.zip works.