Topic: Any firm doing the Iriver CF mod? (in EU?)

[sunjan]

Hi all,

I've been reading about the CF mod popular with the Iriver, JB3 etc:
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,95239.0.html

A friend asked me about this mod for her Iriver, but I don't really have the time or motivation to do this myself.

Ideally, I'd like her to send it in to some firm that can take full responsibility for the mod, if anything goes wrong.

I found a company in Netherlands doing this mod, but only for Ipods:
http://www.ipodrepair.nl/uk/info_flash_uk.html

Do you know of any firm advertising this service for Iriver as well?
It would be an advantage if it was located in the EU, for shipping and customs reasons.

Thanks in advance for any input!

/J

[petur]

not that I know, but the mod is fairly easy to do.

Note that the original firmware of the iriver does not support CF (gives me a CHECK HDD message), and rockbox currently does not support it officially. Work is being done on this however (by me) and in fact I already converted my (backup) h320 to an h308 (8GB x266 A-Data)

Peter


Edit: forgot to say this will require a new bootloader to be flashed, for which you need the original firmware. So don't toss away that HDD just yet

[sunjan]

Note that the original firmware of the iriver does not support CF (gives me a CHECK HDD message), and rockbox currently does not support it officially. Work is being done on this however (by me) and in fact I already converted my (backup) h320 to an h308 (8GB x266 A-Data)

Edit: forgot to say this will require a new bootloader to be flashed, for which you need the original firmware. So don't toss away that HDD just yet

You're the man, petur! T+
My friend is running a h320, but I'm afraid her HDD has crashed, which is the main reason for the mod. Don't know if it's possible to extract that original firmware from the HDD, there should be workarounds...?!

[petur]

nonono...

the h320 original firmware sits in a flash chip (reprogrammable), not on the hdd. Rockbox installation writes a modified firmware to that flash chip so you have both original firmware and rockbox. Rockbox itself is run from the hdd.

now to your problem: to write the rockbox bootloader to the flash chip, we use the original firmware. And that doesn't start with a CF, only with a hdd. So if the disk crashed, it will be hard to get the mod done, unless you have access to a spare hdd to do the installation.

FYI, I'm located in the EU but I'm not a shop and cannot give any warranty....

[sunjan]

now to your problem: to write the rockbox bootloader to the flash chip, we use the original firmware. And that doesn't start with a CF, only with a hdd. So if the disk crashed, it will be hard to get the mod done, unless you have access to a spare hdd to do the installation.

OK, but any old laptop HDD would do as an intermediary, provided it's the right physical size and not broken?

[petur]

now to your problem: to write the rockbox bootloader to the flash chip, we use the original firmware. And that doesn't start with a CF, only with a hdd. So if the disk crashed, it will be hard to get the mod done, unless you have access to a spare hdd to do the installation.

OK, but any old laptop HDD would do as an intermediary, provided it's the right physical size and not broken?

Yes, if the connector (ide 50 pin) fits and the drive is FAT32 formatted it should be ok.

It will take a bit more time before we have an official bootloader and Rockbox version that support CF, though...