Rockbox Ports are now being developed for various digital audio players!
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.
I've used the Tarkan CF-to-SD adapter with uSD cards in Rockbox with iPod mini 2nd gen w/o problems for years.
Is there any hope rockbox will ever work with HFS+?
Quote from: ceratophyllum on March 09, 2019, 01:16:25 PMThe 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.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.
Are the Tarkan iFlash gizmos any better?
One last point: in my experience, you'll eventually run into trouble using Rockbox's DMA on iPod 4Gs regardless of the hardware used, i.e. even using a hard drive, so you may want to disable that to prevent disk corruption in the long run.
QuoteOne last point: in my experience, you'll eventually run into trouble using Rockbox's DMA on iPod 4Gs regardless of the hardware used, i.e. even using a hard drive, so you may want to disable that to prevent disk corruption in the long run. I built Rockbox 3.14 without DMA as you recommend but it did not help. Didn't really expect it to help with SD-CF adapters, but thought it was worth a try.I also tested a Tarkan CF adapter board meant for 5G ipods ("iFlash CF"). (There is yet another adapter to make it fit in a 4G.) Same result as el cheapo: Apple firmware works, but Rockbox crashes. Plugging in USB locks up the Rockbox UI and a panic happens a little while later. A tiny wrench? icon appears in the upper right corner. Without USB connected, attempting to browse files also hangs the UI with the little wrench icon in the corner.Finally, I gave up and put an old Toshiba 20GB drive in. As expected, Rockbox works perfectly. Too bad big CF cards are getting expensive these days.
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