Ipod 5G 30gig 1.2 firmware not found!

[BronYAurStomp]

My ipod (the one in the title), not a 5.5g (although I got it two days ago), can't be found by either ipodpatcher or the unofficial Rockbox Installer.
It shows up as drive E: on My Computer, and iTunes recognizes it as well (and it's enabled for disk use).  It has 1.2 firmware.  What's going wrong? I installed rockbox on my ipod mini 1st gen using this computer as well.

[Febs]

The 5.5g is not yet supported by Rockbox.

You can get details about progress for that platform in this thread:  http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6475.0

[BronYAurStomp]

My ipod (the one in the title), not a 5.5g

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61688#ipodfifth My ipod doesn't have the right serial number for it to be a 5.5

[Llorean]

I believe the 1.2 firmware doesn't use the sysinfo file (or whatever it's called) so many iPod utilities won't recognize it since that was used as a quick way to identify hardware as an iPod.

[BronYAurStomp]

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6639.0
I did the SysInfo thing but it's still not recognized as an iPod :*(

[Llorean]

What number N is it at for iPodPatcher?

[BronYAurStomp]

It's not being recognized at all, either by RIX (sry RIX is the 3rd party Rockbox Installer X v1, i know you guys don't support it just throwing it in there just in case it means something to someone) or ipodpatcher.
ipodpatcher says:
(for ipodpatcher 0) Drive is not an iPod, aborting
(for ipodpatcher 1) Error reading from disk: The parameter is incorrect.
(for ipodpatcher 2-30) Error opening disk: The system cannot find the file specified.

*3rd edit: and i'm really really really grateful for the quick responses i've been getting, thank you Llorean

[Llorean]

I have no idea what "RIX" is.

But, I notice you didn't answer my question. What numbers have you tried with iPodPatcher?

[Llorean]

What parameters are you giving iPodPatcher?

Are you just doing "ipodpatcher 1"?

Also, please do not edit posts to answer questions. It makes it nearly impossible to know you've responded if you go back and edit the post above the question.

[BronYAurStomp]

That's correct, nothing outside of what the installation guide says.

[Llorean]

I'm not sure I can really help you with this one.. I've been told that "Error reading from disk: The parameter is incorrect." is the message that the windows read() function returns to the program when it tries to use it.

[BronYAurStomp]

Ok. I guess I'll just sit tight and hope for an update that will fix things for me. I'm still a little confused as to what exactly I did/didn't do to cause the problem, but thanks for your help. I'll try looking more into 'Error reading from disk: The parameter is incorrect'.

*edit* homelow says ((http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6475.msg51075#msg51075):

to fix rockbox  on the 5G with firmware 1.2  just repatch the bootloader, (with iPodlinux you have to go into linux(live CD or otherwise) and redefine the partition table) the Apple installer overwrites it as FAT32

to which mrmagic526 says

Yes that's all you need to do is extract the new firmware patch it and then reload it and it works

Unfortunately I don't know what it means to 'repatch the bootloader'. Could someone  enlighten me on that?

[Febs]

My ipod (the one in the title), not a 5.5g

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61688#ipodfifth My ipod doesn't have the right serial number for it to be a 5.5

Sorry about that.  I misread your original post.

[godzirra]

I've got the same problem.  Apparently the 5g's running 1.2 Firmware have a problem being detected by ipodpatcher, which si where you get that "Parameter is incorrect" error.  I get it too only when using ipodpatcher 1, and I've tried 0-30.  0 is my main hard drive, 1 is the ipod.

 There's a fix to this posted in another forum, but from what i've been told, Rockbox will have to be adapted to the 2048bit sector size in the new firmware.  (If I'm wrong someone, please correct me... I'm still somewhat new to this =)  

If there's anything I can do to help, feel free to message me.  I've got a new 5g with the 1.2 FW installed, and i'm desperate to get away from iTunes.

And how do you just "repatch the bootloader" so that you can get it to work on a 5g with 1.2 as listed below?

Ok. I guess I'll just sit tight and hope for an update that will fix things for me. I'm still a little confused as to what exactly I did/didn't do to cause the problem, but thanks for your help. I'll try looking more into 'Error reading from disk: The parameter is incorrect'.

*edit* homelow says ((http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6475.msg51075#msg51075):

to fix rockbox  on the 5G with firmware 1.2  just repatch the bootloader, (with iPodlinux you have to go into linux(live CD or otherwise) and redefine the partition table) the Apple installer overwrites it as FAT32

to which mrmagic526 says

Yes that's all you need to do is extract the new firmware patch it and then reload it and it works

Unfortunately I don't know what it means to 'repatch the bootloader'. Could someone  enlighten me on that?

[Febs]

If you have a new model 5g (what some have been calling the 5.5g), it is not yet supported by Rockbox.  The first generation 5g should work fine with firmware 1.2.