H10 hangs on bootloader after upgrade to 60g

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I obtained a Hitachi Travelstar C4K60-60 1.8" Hard Drive Slim model and installed in my H10 (yes, it fits - photos to come).  After formatting it to fat32 and restoring all the files from the original 20g drive on it, it boots, but hangs in the Rockbox boot screen.

I tried the original iRiver firmware and that works fine.

Is there anything that needs to be done to the rockbox boot code to make it work on a 60g drive?

Any help would be appreciated.

-Dan

PS The drive model is HTC426060G8CE00.  It's the same as the original except: 
1. It's 1mm thicker (8mm).
2. The interface is ATA-7 (same as ATA-6 but can go faster - 133m)

[GodEater]

This may be a similar problem to that we've encountered with the 80GB disk drive in the latest 5.5G iPod - in that it doesn't support 512 byte sector transfers. It might be worth hanging onto the drive for a while until LinusN completes his masterwork on the ATA code to support larger sector sizes.

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Thanks for the info.
Waiting (almost) patiently.

Let me know if you need me to test this on the H10.

-Dan

[GodEater]

Well, LinusN is making progress - I tested a new patch he'd made to the FAT handling code today.

I am forced to wonder though - when you say "Let me know if you need to test this on the H10" do you know what you're volunteering for?

LinusN's first words to me were "this may corrupt all the files on your player". If your response to this statement is "I don't care", then you may possibly be asked to test as well. But if by testing you mean you expect to get a look at some early code which just "works" then perhaps you're not really volunteering to test at all ?

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Short of bricking my unit, I am prepared for anything (everything backed up).
I realize bricking is very unlikely (near impossible) since we're not re-flashing.

[cop_out]I am an embeded coder myself (heating controls) and wish I had the time to contribute to this project.[/cop_out]

[gush]I really appreciate the commitment in time and energy all of you have made over the years to this.[/gush]

[barrywardell]

At what stage does it hang? What does it say on the screen?

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If I remember it correctly, it stopped in the bootloader screen after it identified the drive.  I don't know if  it got to "Loading rockbox...", but it definately didn't get to the logo screen.

I went back to the original firmware and that worked fine.

I am trying to resolve another problem (accidentally put it on charge with a 9v adapter) and I think I fried the battery.

If you need anything more specific, please let me know and I hasten the repair to find out for you.

-Dan

[Shabby D]

Hi

I was wondering if you had the pictures of how you installed your hard drive?

I was also wondering whether it was the 20GB version you updated, or the 5GB version?

[iwantanimac]

It is obviously a 20g player, as he used a 1.8" hard drive (Which wouldn't fit in the case of the 5g at all)

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Yes, mine was the 20gb version.  (The 5gb uses a 1" drive).
I will post pictures very soon.

[Shabby D]

I'm aware that it's probably a 20gb version, however he says that he used an ATA drive.  However, as far as I know, you can only use ZIF drives.  I'm just waiting on the pics to see how he installed it so I can fix my own one.

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ATA is an interface spec.  Not the connector used.  You are thinking of IDE which would be the pin header connector.  You need to get the slim version of the drive with a zif connector (hitachi model HTC426060G8CE00).  This drive is 1mm thicker than the original and the cable is a little offset from the original which necessitates trimming one of the blue rubber mounts to fit it.  You must be careful to re-use the gold tape and gold pillows on the original because these items provide ground connectivity in case of static discharge.   I will post pictures as soon as I can.

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Don't know if it's due to the recent ATA fix for the 5.5 gen ipod or the boot loader change made on 20-March, but the 60gb ATA-7 upgrade I made now works fine!  The only glitch is a panic stop when I plug in the usb when it's on.

Thanks all very much for your hard work.

[mike_7060]

Where abouts can you buy a Hitachi C4K60 Slim 60Gb

I live in Canada and can't seem to find anywhere to pick up one of these hard drives.

Any advice would help!

-Mike

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I plugged 'HTC426060G8CE00' into a google product search and it came up with a few sources.
They're not cheap, but available.