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--- Quote from: [Saint] on August 04, 2014, 07:55:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: theunamedguy on August 04, 2014, 05:29:52 PM ---I remember that the version that comes bundled with emCORE was rather buggy, especially with USB. You will want to install a development build.

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This is simply not the case. The version that is bunbled with emCORE is bundled with emCORE specifically because it is known to be the best candidate at the present point in time. In many cases users using current development builds of Rockbox need to use the embedded Rockbox fallback image in order to mount their devices on Windows hosts.

This is demonstrably the opposite of your claims.

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Wrong again! :-[
But still, if you were using a version with a different VID/PID from the iPod, it would work, so I'm not completely wrong, right? :)

Petsha:

--- Quote from: [Saint] on August 04, 2014, 07:55:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: Petsha on August 04, 2014, 02:34:01 PM ---After a day of thinking and trying different things i finally got the emcore way working.

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In this thread I give a detailed breakdown of the problem and working around this issue here (it is a bit technical, and long winded, which is why I'm linking to the thread), and another user provides a patched binary* to work around the issue.

* The linked binary is giving a 404 error presently - the maintainer has been notified.

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Well First of all Thank you very much, Yesterday evening I restored my ipod to the official firmware. But i'm not willing to give up even though I have no experience with codes what so ever ( except codes like: up down triangle squire xxxx down up)
Tonight when im home I will give it a go and see where it lands.

I do have some questions in advance.
Do you advice installing linux as a parallel desktop on my mac or steal my dads windows 8 laptop to give it a go?
After your detailed explanation of which my girl and I had a few laughs there is a post from Copper saying:
--- Quote from: copper on April 20, 2014, 07:32:42 AM ---I'm now hosting a daily build of (vanilla) Rockbox for the iPod Classic with the USB Vendor and Product IDs changed to 0x123A and 0x456B respectively, which aren't currently assigned.

http://caudec.net/rockbox/latest/rockbox-ipod6g-usbid_0x123A_0x456B.zip

Here's the corresponding patch:
http://caudec.net/rockbox/latest/rockbox-ipod6g-usbid_0x123A_0x456B.diff

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Am i right to assume that if I find a way to install that vanilla version of rockbox with the patch that the problem should be gone but the usb code is not that of a external storage device?

Looking forward to your answers and again thank you for your explanation and effort to help!

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: Petsha on August 05, 2014, 04:20:42 AM ---Am i right to assume that if I find a way to install that vanilla version of rockbox with the patch that the problem should be gone but the usb code is not that of a external storage device?

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You are correct, absolutely unsupported binaries from a third party are located here (spoke with the maintainer and figured out why the link I tried to use is dead). At least for the time being.

EDIT: If you're as blind as I am, finding what you're looking for on said page may be extremely non-obvious. Search the page for "iPod Classic (with the USBID patch for OS Ⅹ):".
EDIT 2: I forgot to explain the fact that the USBID is pretty much irrelevant (both the vendor and product IDs used in the patched binary are unassigned, so there won't be {or _shouldn't_ be} any conflict), we just don't want the OS to know its an iPod and try and treat it differently.
EDIT Seventy-eleventy-nineteen: typos galore.

[Saint]

Petsha:
Well I thought id give that a go, and i think it worked i installed the emcore again and then the rockbox with the utility and replaced that with caudec's version.
now I need to figure out how/why the patch is text and what i need to do with that text....

tips?

Many thanks for your help so far

[Saint]:
You don't need to do anything at all with the patch.

The binary you installed includes that patch, the patch is given only to meet Rockbox's licensing requirements. That patch would perhaps be useful to you if you were to want to compile your own binary, but if that is not the case you can simply ignore it.

Remember that if you update Rockbox with a binary that does not include this change (ie. the official Rockbox binaries), you'll be back to square one again and your Mac will try to speak silly proprietary iPod whispers to it instead of simply treating it as removable storage.


[Saint]

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