Third Party > Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players
2 Partition mSata iPod Gen 6
Frankenpod:
--- Quote from: bocadakota on July 29, 2016, 10:25:51 AM --- Can't figure why Rockbox uses LBA48 with ssd but itunes cannot. Know it's firmware but cracking it seems out of reach.
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That model ipod firmware is apparently specifically coded to only use LBA48 if it detects a (er, not sure if this is the right terminology) CE interface drive, as in the original double-platter 160gb drive. With a zif interface as in the ssd adaptor or the single-platter drives used by other classics, it switches to the more limited LBA mode.
Can only guess that Apple did this precisely to make mods difficult, unless there's some other technical reason.
Would be interesting if anyone can get the MULTI VOLUME thing to work (as suggested by Saratoga). Seems as if that would be the only way to get this gen of ipod working in dual-boot mode. Otherwise you just have to use it exclusively in Rockbox mode, I guess.
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