Third Party > Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players
2 Partition mSata iPod Gen 6
bocadakota:
Update, I have both iTunes and Rockbox loaded, sync'd songs using iTunes, switched to Rockbox and it found the iTunes that was sync'd and loaded it. So far so good. Used RockboxBootloaderInstaller_iPodClassic_v8+DesignWare.exe to get Rockbox loaded and a few skins I liked. MiniAide Fat32 Formatter sees 1st partition (128gb) and unused, unallocated 128gb. I was able to create a second partition and Fat32 formatted it, when in Rockbox mode and usb connected. Windows 10 does not see second partition under explorer but MiniAide Fat32 does, this is due to Windows issue. Still can't resize 1st partition to utilize whole drive (250gb) , but for now I'm content till another day or someone has a suggestion. Until the LBA can be enabled I will keep trying to find a work around.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: bocadakota on July 21, 2016, 01:22:16 PM --- Still can't resize 1st partition to utilize whole drive (250gb) , but for now I'm content till another day or someone has a suggestion. Until the LBA can be enabled I will keep trying to find a work around.
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Since the Apple firmware only uses LBA28, I think if you try to resize above that limit, the Apple firmware is going to either corrupt your disk or else just restore the partitions to something it can understand. I think the best you can do here is setup a main partition for the Apple firmware, and then put the rest of the space into a second partition. By default rockbox will ignore that, but you could compile a custom build with support for multiple volumes by adding HAVE_MULTIVOLUME to the config file before building:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/BigDisk
I'm not sure if that will work on newer devices but I don't see why it won't.
bocadakota:
Odd, deleted second fat32 partition this morning while usb connected using MiniAide Fat32 and Rockbox running. After deletion I expanded the first partition to full drive, it accepted (which didn't work previous)and expanded to full 256gb. Ejected and watched as Rockbox took a couple of seconds and recognized full drive (232GB) with 119GB free under system/rockbox info and all my music. Only time will tell if data gets corrupt if I go over 128gb limit. iPod is 6th Gen with original 160gb hdd config and now with Crucial mSata 250gb. Thanks Saratoga for replies and comments. Will post if any other experiment issue.
bocadakota:
Additional update: After partition resize to 250gb for Rockbox. Rockbox functional, tried boot to iTunes and it ask for restore. Will use Rockbox only for now, suspect if I try restore it will revert back to 128GB drive for both.
bocadakota:
Tried to restore itunes and as suspected it crashed everything, overwrote partition. Could get itunes reloaded (w/128gb max) easy but??? Took for ever to get back to Rockbox loaded and use of 250gb ssd, not going to get into details. As in previous post will use Rockbox and learn. Wish there was a way to hack ipods LBA48 use on an ssd drive. Original config of ipod was 160gb hard drive until it started to get lots of errors due to drive failure. 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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