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Title: H120/HDD Replacement/Firmware Loading
Post by: 1westkc3 on February 05, 2007, 03:58:19 PM

I expect to receive a new 30g HDD for my dead H120.  I know how to get Rockbox loaded but was wondering if there's a way to get the original iRiver firmware loaded.  I don't use the original firmware but it would be nice to have in certain situations where booting to Rockbox is problematic.  Any ideas out there?  I have another working H120 with both Rockbox & the original firmware.  Is there some way to copy the original firmware to the PC then load to the new H130?

Title: Re: H120/HDD Replacement/Firmware Loading
Post by: Massive Dynamic on February 05, 2007, 08:43:40 PM

This page on Rockbox.org, http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ManualRockboxInstall#iriver_jukeboxes , has links to iRiver firmware. I think the 1.66US is what you'll want to install, then load Rockbox.

Title: Re: H120/HDD Replacement/Firmware Loading
Post by: petur on February 06, 2007, 03:50:03 AM

Quote from: 1westkc3 on February 05, 2007, 03:58:19 PM

I expect to receive a new 30g HDD for my dead H120.  I know how to get Rockbox loaded but was wondering if there's a way to get the original iRiver firmware loaded.  I don't use the original firmware but it would be nice to have in certain situations where booting to Rockbox is problematic.  Any ideas out there?  I have another working H120 with both Rockbox & the original firmware.  Is there some way to copy the original firmware to the PC then load to the new H130?

the original firmware and the RockBox bootloader are both in a FLASH rom chip in the player. Only RockBox loads in two steps (bootloader in flash and actual program on HDD).

So once you unzip rockbox on the new harddisk, things should be as before. The original firmware will still be there.

Title: Re: H120/HDD Replacement/Firmware Loading
Post by: Massive Dynamic on February 06, 2007, 06:23:25 PM

Quote from: petur on February 06, 2007, 03:50:03 AM

the original firmware and the RockBox bootloader are both in a FLASH rom chip in the player. Only RockBox loads in two steps (bootloader in flash and actual program on HDD).

So once you unzip rockbox on the new harddisk, things should be as before. The original firmware will still be there.

Thanks for the correction, Petur! I posted while still recovering from the flu.  :P Took me awhile to remember that reformatting a drive (or installing a new drive) only erases the RockBox build, not the firmware.

Title: Re: H120/HDD Replacement/Firmware Loading
Post by: 1westkc3 on February 06, 2007, 08:21:42 PM

Excellent news.  Thanks to you both CliveStaples & petur.  TS comes thru again.