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Chronon:
You could do that.  But the main use for Rockbox is as a jukebox.  If all of your media is on a non-compatible partition then you won't be able to get the most out of Rockbox.

From what Llorean says it sounds like such a driver would be an unlikely candidate for inclusion into the CVS source.  But it sounds like a great candidate for a patch if someone could figure out how to code the driver in the first place.

linuxstb:

--- Quote from: hatchinatore on October 16, 2006, 06:58:24 PM ---couldnt it be possible to make a small side partion and put all the rockbox files on there, and access it through loader 2?
or is there no other way?

--- End quote ---

No.  An HFS+ formatted ipod has an Apple Partition Map instead of a DOS MBR-style partition table.  Rockbox doesn't understand Apple Partition Maps, so wouldn't be able to find the FAT32 partition.

Chronon:
Ah okay.  But is there a way to only change the partition table?  It seems that the partition table is stored in the boot sector so it seems a shame to have to re-format the entire hard drive just to change the format of the partition table.  

Anyway, this is basically an academic question since all of the media will be on the HFS+ partition (and therefore inaccessible) on macpods anyway.

fiftyfour123:
i'm with hatchinore on this, ive also had ipl for a while, and would really like to be able to use rockbox as well. the reasons i am not converting to FAT32 are as follows:

FAT32 has terrible speeds on macs
iPL on FAT32 ipods sucks, because of having the extra partition
i dont think you can update an ipods firmware from a mac with a FAT32 ipod

i know all this because i have converted my ipod to FAT32 and hated it.

what does it mean to add another driver? wouldnt that mean just adding some code? could we use code from ipodlinux? or the code from loader2 that allows it to be used on HFS ipods?

linuxstb:

--- Quote from: fiftyfour123 on October 18, 2006, 07:08:33 PM ---FAT32 has terrible speeds on macs
iPL on FAT32 ipods sucks, because of having the extra partition
i dont think you can update an ipods firmware from a mac with a FAT32 ipod

--- End quote ---

Then complain to Apple about its lack of support for FAT32 iPods under Mac OS X and general poor support for FAT32, and complain to the IPL devs about its lack of ability to run from a FAT32 partition.


--- Quote ---what does it mean to add another driver? wouldnt that mean just adding some code? could we use code from ipodlinux? or the code from loader2 that allows it to be used on HFS ipods?

--- End quote ---

loader2 only has read-only support for HFS+.  Linux has an immature read/write driver for HFS+.  However, Rockbox isn't Linux, and we wouldn't want to port the entire Linux filesystem layer and HFS+ driver into Rockbox - the code just isn't suitable.

But if someone wanted to do the work, I would be happy for it to be incorporated into Rockbox, but there are also a lot more things that need doing for the iPod port, which IMO are much more useful:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodStatus

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