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Installation / Removal => Manual Installation => Apple - Installation/Removal => Topic started by: LiverpoolBear on February 06, 2023, 06:44:20 PM

Title: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: LiverpoolBear on February 06, 2023, 06:44:20 PM
Hi All,

I had an 6th Gen 80gb iPod that I had upgraded to 256gb that worked with Rockbox.  I lost this, or rather the removal company did during the move from the UK to Australia.  I bought a second hand one the other week, as well as an iFlash Quad and a Sandisk 512gb SD card.

I successfully upgraded the iPod over the weekend.  The only problem is the iPod will only recognise 128gb of the 512gb.

I have taken the card out again, used Windows Disk Manager to remove the partitions so that I get it back to 512gb only for the iPod to then put it back to 128gb.

Can someone please confirm that the way to do this is as follows:

1) Restore iPod via iTunes and install Rockbox on it. 
2) Copy only the Rockbox folder from the iPod / SD Card onto my PC.
3) Use Windows Disk Manager to restore the SD card back to 512gb.
4) Put the copied Rockbox folder back on the card from my PC.
5) Copy my entire Music folder onto the card.
6) Put the card back into the iPod.

Many thanks and all the best.
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: saratoga on February 06, 2023, 09:36:29 PM
Are you booting the Apple firmware?  I believe it will try to repartition to the storage back to something it understands if you do that.  If you're going to use storage that isn't compatible with it you might want to install rockbox without dual boot just to make sure you don't accidentally reboot into it and lose your storage.
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: LiverpoolBear on February 06, 2023, 09:40:36 PM
I've installed the Rockbox Bootloader, but if I switch over the Hold button it will then try and boot into Apple.  This is where I get the message asking me to connect it to iTunes to restore it.

My plan is to never do this, and have it boot into Rockbox.
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: Frankenpod on February 07, 2023, 01:19:15 AM
Is there not a way to entirely disable dual-boot?  I dimly remember that being mentioned at some point.  I suppose it would need a modified boot-loader?  Maybe it was a custom-patch someone produced?

Seems it came up in this (ancient) thread

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=42520.0
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: saratoga on February 07, 2023, 10:27:45 AM
I believe you can just not enable dual boot when installing the bootloader with mks5lboot. 
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: rockbox_dev123 on February 12, 2023, 11:01:24 AM
Is there not a way to entirely disable dual-boot?

I believe you can just not enable dual boot when installing the bootloader with mks5lboot. 

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,53174.msg245632.html#msg245632
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: LiverpoolBear on March 14, 2023, 11:17:18 PM
Hi All,

Woohoo!  I have managed to get it to recognise the whole 512gb!

It hangs when it is building the database though Doh!
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: saratoga on March 15, 2023, 10:59:43 AM
Which build are you running?
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: LiverpoolBear on March 16, 2023, 01:18:20 AM
I am running Build 3.15.
Title: Re: iPod Classic 6th Gen only recognising 128gb: Please Help.
Post by: saratoga on March 16, 2023, 09:31:43 AM
That is too old to work with SD adapters, update your build.