1TB Hard Drive 6th Generation IPOD Classic issue

[Martin101]

HI all

I recently purchased a 6th generation 1TB IPOD with rockbox already installed.

It worked great, but to make a long story short it stopped loading rockbox after awhile and it just went into USB mode.

I somehow got Rockbox reinstalled and working, but now I only have 127 GB of space.  So before I had a TB using rockbox, now I only have 127 GB.

The seller told me that I somehow installed the  itunes firmware which reverts the ipod maximum capacity to the original 127gb.  He told me that he NEVER had the itunes software installed in the first place, thus the reason for my issue.

But how do I get rid of the Itunes firmware?

Any ideas?  Thanks.

[cereal_killer]

One suggestion: format the whole storage to FAT32 (you'll probably need to merge partitions). If the bootloader is installed, just unzip a rockbox build to the player. Rockbox should work, but the OF won't. Diskmode will probably work too.

[Oscar]

One suggestion: format the whole storage to FAT32 (you'll probably need to merge partitions). If the bootloader is installed, just unzip a rockbox build to the player. Rockbox should work, but the OF won't. Diskmode will probably work too.

Does this mean, that the Rockbox bootloader is not stored in the 2nd partition, where the Apple firmware lives? Is this true for all the iPod ports of Rockbox?

[Martin101]

I guess my question should be... how do I remove the apple firmware so it reads the whole 1TB?

Thanks

[saratoga]

One suggestion: format the whole storage to FAT32 (you'll probably need to merge partitions). If the bootloader is installed, just unzip a rockbox build to the player. Rockbox should work, but the OF won't. Diskmode will probably work too.

Does this mean, that the Rockbox bootloader is not stored in the 2nd partition, where the Apple firmware lives? Is this true for all the iPod ports of Rockbox?

On the 6g the bootloader is installed to the NOR flash on the device. 

I guess my question should be... how do I remove the apple firmware so it reads the whole 1TB?

I could be wrong, but I think the issue is that since the apple firmware cannot address more than 127GB, if you boot into it, you'll get the disk reformatted as 127GB.  I think you can reinstall rockbox and then resize the partition.  It might also be worth using mks5lboot to install the single boot bootloader so that you cannot accidentally boot into the apple firmware again:

https://git.rockbox.org/cgit/rockbox.git/tree/utils/mks5lboot/README#n195

[Martin101]

I think you are correct... the only thing is that I don't know how to resize the partition on this IPOD.  Is there a video somewhere that shows this?