Upgrade to 256 with lba28

[darkrhino]

So I bought an iPod 5(?) gen 120gb and it had the giant red X on it. I found out that signified a dead drive. I ordered a replacement iFlash-Quad for it so I can exceed the previous limit. While waiting I dug some more and had all the necessary information to proceed and install RockBox on this particular iPod. After receiving it, I installed my 4 64gb microSD in and started the process.
Roadblock #1 : After several attempts, I originally couldn't install Rockbox. I kept getting an erroe that said something like cannot find rockbox.ipod entering usb mode. Tree days of that I took to the internet and found out that it wasn't the version I needed. I go through normal install process and after that screen appears, upload a file I found called ipod6gvideo (or something like that) and installed that into main directory and presto. works fine.
Roadblock #2: After all of that torment, I find myself stuck on the process of utilizing the full (per se) 256gb of the combined MicroSD cards. I have attempted many different things. I have tried various versions of rockbox as early as I can find and no results. I cannot find a way to format the 256gb for rockbox for upload. Every time I see the 256, I try to upload anything, it dumps out and back to square one. I am quite versed in computers and maybe I may have overlooked something to try. I have tried just about everything and have now considered surface san to see for bad sectors. Should I have each one unformatted and install rockbox? What am I missing.
-Willow

[saratoga]

There is no iPod 5g 120 GB, so road block 1 was probably just that you were attempting to put the 5g firmware on a 6g.

For #2, the apple firmware won't work with more than 128gb if I understand correctly. You can try formatting in rockbox, but those iflash adapters often don't work well or at all with rockbox so it may or may not work.

[Frankenpod]

It's not clear if you are using the dual-boot bootloader method, or the old emcore method.

I am not sure how you get a 120gb classic to work with 256gb of storage with the new (not quite finished?) dual-boot method, because of the problem that the OF can't cope with more than 128gb.  I remember someone got it to work but if they ever rebooted into OF mode it would mess up so it effectively wasn't dual-boot.

It can be done with the emcore method (if I remember rightly - which I might not as I only did that once ages ago - it goes, restore with iTunes, follow emcore procedure to end up with a rockbox ipod with 128gb available, once rockbox is running refomat the data area from the tools menu to get the full 256gb).

But then there is still a very good chance of encountering the compatibility problems saratoga refers to, as you have no access to OF mode.

 5th gens are much less fussy about rockbox with flash than 5.5/6th/7th (whatever terminology you use) are.

[[Saint]]

5th gens are much less fussy about rockbox with flash than 5.5/6th/7th (whatever terminology you use) are.

As an aside, the 5.5G still an iPod Video, but with 64MB of RAM as opposed to 32MB (couple of other points, but that's the one of note).

For #2, the apple firmware won't work with more than 128gb if I understand correctly.

The CE-ATA variant comes in a 160GB flavor, but either way, neither 120 or 160 == 256, so the point remains.

As noted, it is only the original firmware and apple disk mode that care about these limitations.

I have always wanted to try an iPod classic build with multivolume support enabled, but as I literally never use the original firmware or disk mode outside of testing I'm really not terribly invested.

I suspect this is the answer that people are looking for to maintain functionality with large format disks that doesn't explode each time you boot the OF.


[Saint]

[Frankenpod]

5th gens are much less fussy about rockbox with flash than 5.5/6th/7th (whatever terminology you use) are.

As an aside, the 5.5G still an iPod Video, but with 64MB of RAM as opposed to 32MB (couple of other points, but that's the one of note).

I have read, though I have no direct knowledge of it so might be wrong, that the 32mb/64mb difference is between 30gb and 60/80gb models, rather than between "5.0" and "5.5" generations.

  The difference that seems to be relevant to compatibility, from my experience, is that the 5.0 gen formats the drive in a more straightforward way than the 5.5gen and later.  I realise that Rockbox developers would know more about this than I do, but repeatedly I've found rockboxed 5.0 gens work with media that make classics fall over (haven't had enough 5.5 gens to experiment with, but they seem to share the later gen's odd formatting)