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bascule:

--- Quote from: Thingfisher on September 20, 2007, 10:45:29 PM ---...Then I opened up the  source code in Word...
--- End quote ---

Well, that's your problem. You need to use a text editor that does not add unseen formatting to your file. Word definitely will, even Notepad adds incorrect (for coding) line endings.

Use Notepad++ (freeware) or similar.

Mad Cow:
Could somebody take a picture of their ipod mini hard drive connector, the part attached to the board? From what I've seen it looks like a flex cable with the IDE connector attached. Is there a ZIF socket it connects to? I want to revive my old H10 with a CF card, but it uses a ZIF connector, and I can't find an adaptor anywhere.

LambdaCalculus:
Does it look something like this, perhaps?

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OlympusMR100Info#Seagate_Microdrive

Mad Cow:
Yep, but not sure about the pin amount. The one on the H10 uses a 45 pin connector.

EDIT: Looked at the wrong picture, yes that's the exact drive in the 5GB version, the 6GB version uses the same model 6GB drive.

My attempt to transplant a CF card into a gigabeat failed miserably, so now I want to revive my old H10 as a little project. ;)

SpaceFuzz:
heinimuecki:  Thanks for the simple, explicit instructions!  It works!  I love my 8GB Rockbox iPod Mini again!  (It was painful to revert to iTunes until I could get Rockbox to work with the CF.  Sacrilege!)

Mad Cow:  this isn't a pic of MY iPod hard drive connector, but here is a great site that has pictures of nearly all components in an iPod mini (this is page 2, which has the hard drive connector cable you wanted):  http://www.ifixit.com/Products/Mini-1st-Gen/96/Page-2

Everyone else:  Yes, with heinimeucki's instructions, hacking out the ATA sleep function to make your Compact Flash work with a Rockboxed iPod mini is fairly trivial...if you know Linux, have some programming skill, and the tenacity to figure out things.  But if you're not so inclined, I'll post a link to my recompiled rockbox.ipod firmware (iPod Mini 1st Gen) later this week.  Like was stated earlier, it really is best to compile your own so you can keep up with the latest advances, however.

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