iriver H10 20 Gig -LONG boot time

[montgoja]

Hello again,
Finally got my player back from the shop (it was, indeed, bricked) and just put the current build (as of about 4-12) on it.  Everything installed fine, music is on, and everything works great.  Obviously, I've missed a lot of changes since around Feb. when it got bricked, but I like what I see so far.  My only complaint/concern right now is that when I turn on my iRiver 20Gb, it seems to take FOREVER for it to boot.  I spend a good amount of time on the iRiver startup screen before the Rockbox logo comes on, and then I spend another good amount of time at the Rockbox logo before I fully boot.  I'm hoping it's just something with the build that they're trying to work out right now, because it really stinks having to wait like, two minutes for my player to boot.  I really hope it's not due to something iRiver did when they fixed my player.
Please shed some light on my situation!

Thanks,
Joel

[Llorean]

Please read the forum posting guidelines before posting again. You not only cross-posted this (against our rules) but your other post was in a section it didn't belong in.

[007quick]

Did you put your music on first? I would recommend removing all files from you H10 then puting the build on, this causes all the rockbox files to be in the same place! then move your other files back on. I know that that reduced the boot time for me!

[bluebrother]

Did you put your music on first? I would recommend removing all files from you H10 then puting the build on, this causes all the rockbox files to be in the same place! then move your other files back on. I know that that reduced the boot time for me!

Sounds like a fragmentation issue, which should be solveable by defragging the disk. Which, otoh, would be quite slow on a DAP so moving the file should be faster.

But it doesn't explain the "really slow" issue -- like 2 minutes is really long. Did you do other speed tests of the disk? I.e. is copying the files also slow? If yes it might be a problem with your hard disk. I can't imagine that a fragmented hard disk would cause a 2 minute boot time.

[montgoja]

First of all, Llorean, sorry about the double posting.  I posted the first time, then realized that I had posted in the wrong folder.  Won't happen again!

Now...
After following the suggestions posted  here, I have completely reverted back to the original firmware, deleted ALL music that had been on there originally, and re-installed Rockbox with the latest build.  With only the /.rockbox folder, the four sample pictures in the picture folder, and NO music files at all installed (accidentally deleted the two files that were on the player already -- the original firmware still displays them under artist, etc., but not in the browser), took a grand total of 45 seconds to fully boot to the main rockbox screen.  It spent 23 seconds at the bootloader blue iRiver screen, and 22 seconds on the Rockbox title before giving me my menu selections.  This just seems like an inordinately long amount of time to boot up.

I'm looking at my current settings in Rockbox itself, and this is what I see regarding settings for disk, etc.:

Disk Spindown:  set at 5 seconds (default)
Directory Cache: No

My Version is: r13139-070412

Like I said, files copy onto the disk fine, as far as I can tell.  A 225 MB folder took about 14 seconds to copy entirely.  Single files copy on almost instantaneously.  After copying the folder and single file to my disk, it still took about 36 seconds to load.
I guess it's just that I don't seem to recall having to wait that long for my player to boot before.  If memory serves, I only had to wait about 5-10 seconds before.  Maybe I'm just crazy.  I don't know.