Topic: iRiver H120 CF Mod Attempt - Success!

[Arni99]

My CF-modded H120 dropped out of my jacket while going up the stairs to my appartment and hit the floor after a free fall of more than 3 meters( 10 feet)!!!
All is working fine! 
I thought it was its last journey when i heard the crashing sound on the stone-floor.
If I had a 1/8" HDD inside and not a CF-card, things would look different now....

[Rapide23]

Ordered a 2200mha battery and 32GB Ridata 233X CF card for my H300.

Can't wait to have it all up and running next week!

[Ziggz]

Used mine for the first time last night. Works great, Rockbox (safety clip) rules. I just hit record, put hold on and walked in. Didn't bother checking levels or anything. Was also running my R-09.... stealthing with 2 recorders is a bit tricky!

[lordbelial]

Gonna perform the mod in a few weeks, just ordered the adapters.

Is there any official (or unofficial) list of the CF cards that are supported by the 7pre4 patch?

[petur]

Is there any official (or unofficial) list of the CF cards that are supported by the 7pre4 patch?

All cards should work. I advise against slow ones, get 133x or faster for acceptable transfer speeds

[Arni99]

Is there any official (or unofficial) list of the CF cards that are supported by the 7pre4 patch?

All cards should work. I advise against slow ones, get 133x or faster for acceptable transfer speeds

info: Transfertime for 2GB(3h23min WAV 16bit 44.1kHz) from my Sandisk Extreme III 8GB x133 CF-card is exactly 4min using USB 2.0.

[Rapide23]

Another happy H332 owner! 

[deadhoarse]

Another happy H332 owner! 

Which 32gb card did you use? A-Data or Transcend?

edit: Nevermind (Ridata)

[612]

Hmm, I think a 16GB card is going to do me fine. I'm sure they function and work just the same but the bigger cards just make me nervous. Probably the same reason I won't be buying a one terabyte drive anytime soon.

Still, very cool that people are modding to 32GB cards...much respect.

[Arni99]

Hmm, I think a 16GB card is going to do me fine. I'm sure they function and work just the same but the bigger cards just make me nervous. Probably the same reason I won't be buying a one terabyte drive anytime soon.

Still, very cool that people are modding to 32GB cards...much respect.

You can record 12h48min on a 8GB CF card in 16bit 44.1kHz(WAV) and the internal battery will still show more than 30% power.

That´s why 8GB are MORE than sufficient for me using my H120 as a recorder only.

I never taped more than 4-6 hours a day at festivals ...in case you know a good looking masseuse...longer sessions won´t be an issue HAHA.

recording-time:   with one battery-charge using a CF-modded iriver iHP-120/H140
2GB 3h 23min
4GB 6h 46 min
8GB 12h48min
16GB more than 25h
32GB more than 50h

[aleal5687]

Picked up an ihp100(thanks run,run,run) and a 4gb adata speedy cf card and ide->cf adapter(thanks darktrain)

I started by up trying to upload the7pre4 bootloader to the ihp100. I got a checksum error. I decided to go ahead and try the mod without updating the bootloader.

Installed the adapter/cf card and everything worked like a charm.

Thanks to AlexG, Petur, Arni

[pietrocorvo]

Hi, another rookie speaking
I did the mod on my ihp120 with a 2gb sandisk succesfully, but then i wanted more: bought a transcend 16gb 133x did the same (used 7pre4 bootloader) but got only ata-80 error... as english isnt my own language, i tried to follow the hints on the rb-site but im not sure if i did well... there are some patches, but im not sure which and how to install...
so, is there a way to get my 16gb-card running?
Thanks in Advance,
pietrocorvo

[petur]

I did the mod on my ihp120 with a 2gb sandisk succesfully, but then i wanted more: bought a transcend 16gb 133x did the same (used 7pre4 bootloader) but got only ata-80 error... as english isnt my own language, i tried to follow the hints on the rb-site but im not sure if i did well... there are some patches, but im not sure which and how to install...
so, is there a way to get my 16gb-card running?

As far as I know, you need to do the bootloader install as mentioned on the CFMod wiki page, and then install the latest build.

We hope to have officially released bootloaders for h1x0 and h3x0 soon as part of our plan to have an official 3.0 release. No timeframe given. I may have a look into building a h1x0 bootloader and attaching it to that wiki page just like I did for the h3x0...

[lordbelial]

Just Modded a broken HDD unit I had wandering around with a 4GB trascend 120x CF card and it's working like a charm.
Just in time for festival time!

[blastroknow]

I just did one of my h120s successfully.  4 gig Adata speedy card.

Recorded 1hr 30min, transferred to my DAW now I'm listening to some 70s Miles Davis .wav files off of it.

Transfer speed was fine for me.  Better than real time DAT transfer, eh?

Feeling good and basking in the warm glow of tampering with things 

Thanks to all those who blazed the trail!!