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iPod 4G (A1059) +128GB uSD panic mount: 0 with FAT32
ceratophyllum:
I have an iPod 4G with the el cheapo CF-to-1.8" adapter with a Tarkan CF-to-SD adapter. (The 128GB Sandisk uSD card is in the SD adapter it came with. I got the 128GB uSD from Walmart brand new.)
Rockbox 3.14 installs fine, but any attempt to mount the ipod (in Linux or OS X) causes rockbox to hang for a while and eventually give this "panic mount: 0" error. Disabling USB HID does not make any difference. Then you have to hold Select+Menu to reboot.
The ipod+adapter+128GB uSD card was originally Mac (HFS+) formatted and worked fine with Apple firmware. I did not attempt any partition table voodoo, I just let a windows PC "restore" the ipod to FAT32.
The reason I wanted rockbox was so I could have gapless playback, since this old iPod's Apple firmware can't do that. I prefer the look and feel of 4th gen ipods to the so-called "Classic" 5th and 6th. These "Classic" ipods have flimsy battery connectors that break off and, well, are just ugly.
I've used the Tarkan CF-to-SD adapter with uSD cards in Rockbox with iPod mini 2nd gen w/o problems for years. I guess the el cheapo ($6) CF-to-1.8" thingy is causing some problem with rockbox's FAT32 driver?
Are the Tarkan iFlash gizmos any better?
I am surprised that the cheap adapter works perfectly with HFS+, but not with the much more common FAT32....I've thoroughly tested: I can sync 60GB+ of music (mix of Apple Lossless, AAC, mp3) using itunes and there is no problem. Only been testing for a few days, but playback seems fine.
cereal_killer:
--- Quote from: ceratophyllum on March 09, 2019, 01:16:25 PM ---The ipod+adapter+128GB uSD card was originally Mac (HFS+) formatted and worked fine with Apple firmware. I did not attempt any partition table voodoo, I just let a windows PC "restore" the ipod to FAT32.
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Dou you mean you restored using iTunes on Windows? This would be the best way to make sure everything is set up fine for Rockbox.
--- Quote from: ceratophyllum on March 09, 2019, 01:16:25 PM ---I've used the Tarkan CF-to-SD adapter with uSD cards in Rockbox with iPod mini 2nd gen w/o problems for years.
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I had no luck with my iPod mini 2nd gen using the Tarkan iFlash CF-to-SD adapter and a Toshiba 64GB microSDXC card in its adapter. OF worked fine, but Rockbox wouldn't. I also put this adapter in my Cowon Q5W, but it wouldn't work either, but a normal CF card worked.
So I can't help you here, but hope you can get yout iPod to work.
ceratophyllum:
Is there any hope rockbox will ever work with HFS+?
FAT32 is not a very robust filesystem even when it works right on my iPod Minis. I listen to a good amount of classical and new age music whose filenames are a pretty hopeless mess: huge filenames, accents, Asian characters, punctuation marks. Of a few thousand files, about 20-30 of them can't be copied to a FAT32 partition at all without renaming. Hundreds of other filenames are (silently, without warning or error) goofed up.
I never had any problem with these files on ext4, zfs, hfs+. FAT32, however, is showing its age.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: ceratophyllum on March 09, 2019, 02:13:18 PM ---Is there any hope rockbox will ever work with HFS+?
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None whatsoever.
ceratophyllum:
--- Quote from: cereal_killer on March 09, 2019, 01:30:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: ceratophyllum on March 09, 2019, 01:16:25 PM ---The ipod+adapter+128GB uSD card was originally Mac (HFS+) formatted and worked fine with Apple firmware. I did not attempt any partition table voodoo, I just let a windows PC "restore" the ipod to FAT32.
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Do you mean you restored using iTunes on Windows? This would be the best way to make sure everything is set up fine for Rockbox.
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Yes, I restored it on a windows PC before installing rockbox. By "voodoo," I mean the mucking about with partitions described here:
https://www.iflash.xyz/prepare-sdxc-exfat-for-use-with-the-ipod/
I didn't bother trying this. iTunes was able reformat as FAT32 both of my initially 128GB exfat-formatted SD cards in my iPod Minis (containing Tarkan iFlash CF-to-SD adapters) and they work fine with the current stable rockbox 3.14. Both were originally 4GB iPod Mini (A1051).
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