Topic: iRiver H120 CF Mod Attempt - Success!

[petur]

Thanks for these interesting observations!

[EarlyMorningRain]

in a similiar boat as this person.

I upgraded the CF card in my H320 to an 8gig last night (from a 4gig), and I get the ata-80 error.

I'll check out the RB wiki page that Petur mentioned, hopefully it's something with the bootloader (or pressing some key down then power up the machine).

For now I've got the old CF card in there and it boots up to Rockbox with no problems (but booting up to the original iRiver FW says "check HDD"...)

Trying to find info on this is almost like finding a needle in a hay stack. I mean I work on computers for a living and do hardware upgrades all the time (including motherboard replacements on Thinkpad laptops), but to upgrade the drive/card in your iRiver isn't exactly straight forward......   

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 upgraded the CF card in my H320 to an 8gig last night (from a 4gig), and I get the ata-80 error.

I'll check out the RB wiki page that Petur mentioned, hopefully it's something with the bootloader (or pressing some key down then power up the machine).

Are you already using the modified bootloader or still the official one?

Trying to find info on this is almost like finding a needle in a hay stack. I mean I work on computers for a living and do hardware upgrades all the time (including motherboard replacements on Thinkpad laptops), but to upgrade the drive/card in your iRiver isn't exactly straight forward......   

That's because not many are doing this, so we're the only ones generating the information on the net

[Chuck]

I wonder if this will work with the CF mod? I'm going to have to find some time to try it.
He has a build for the RTC mod too!

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2513.new;topicseen#new

[EarlyMorningRain]

It has the Rockbox Bootloader, ver 5 installed. Attached is a screendump if this info is helpful

Are you already using the modified bootloader or still the official one?

[petur]

It has the Rockbox Bootloader, ver 5 installed. Attached is a screendump if this info is helpful

Are you already using the modified bootloader or still the official one?

That's your problem then.... on h300, you need to flash the bootloader that is in the CFMod wiki page. Aftre that, you can use any recent rockbox version

[petur]

I wonder if this will work with the CF mod? I'm going to have to find some time to try it.
He has a build for the RTC mod too!

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2513.new;topicseen#new

If it is based on recent rockbox code, it should.
I'm finally doing some effort to get the histogram stuff of the REP in the official build

[Chuck]

I wonder if this will work with the CF mod? I'm going to have to find some time to try it.
He has a build for the RTC mod too!

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2513.new;topicseen#new

If it is based on recent rockbox code, it should.
I'm finally doing some effort to get the histogram stuff of the REP in the official build

...and the balance meter too??? 

[EarlyMorningRain]

I've tried that file. It was a .zip file on that link that extracts out to a H300.hex file with a date code of 2-28-2008 (correct?)

what would be the process of steps if you don't mind me asking?
Something like this: ?

1) do the install of new CF card (or hard drive)
2) power up iRiver (won't boot at this point), plug in USB cable so I can see the iRiver in Windows
3) copy over the h300.hex file to root of CF card
4) reboot
5) install rockbox using the install utility
6) reboot and your done
?

That's your problem then.... on h300, you need to flash the bootloader that is in the CFMod wiki page. Aftre that, you can use any recent rockbox version

[Chuck]

I wonder if this will work with the CF mod? I'm going to have to find some time to try it.
He has a build for the RTC mod too!

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2513.new;topicseen#new

I had some time to try this today. One of the versions enables RTC and is synced with the REP.
I loaded it onto one of my iHP-1x0 and it looks great!

I thought I was going to be able to run RockBox with the CF mod too, but
I still can not get it to work with my Transcend 8GB card...
I updated the boot loader to the newest version... As far as I can tell, it's supposed to work but nada...

I tried booting from RAM, ROM and the CF card. It kind of worked once, when I got the RockBox logo to show on the screen, but I couldn't get past the logo. None of the buttons worked...

When I replace the hard drive, everything works as it should.

I know I'm getting close...

[EarlyMorningRain]

what's the error message say when you boot up with that CF card?

FWIW - the 8gig Cf card I was trying to get working was a Lexar 133x, thought I'd try my luck on a Transcend 16gig card next....

I thought I was going to be able to run RockBox with the CF mod too, but
I still can not get it to work with my Transcend 8GB card...
I updated the boot loader to the newest version... As far as I can tell, it's supposed to work but nada...

I tried booting from RAM, ROM and the CF card. It kind of worked once, when I got the RockBox logo to show on the screen, but I couldn't get past the logo. None of the buttons worked...

[petur]

I've tried that file. It was a .zip file on that link that extracts out to a H300.hex file with a date code of 2-28-2008 (correct?)

correct

what would be the process of steps if you don't mind me asking?
Something like this: ?

1) do the install of new CF card (or hard drive)
2) power up iRiver (won't boot at this point), plug in USB cable so I can see the iRiver in Windows
3) copy over the h300.hex file to root of CF card
4) reboot
5) install rockbox using the install utility
6) reboot and your done

wrong.

You need to have a harddisk installed, copy the h300.hex file to it and start the original iriver firmware. There you select 'upgrade firmware'
Once that is done, you can proceed to install the CF card and copy rockbox on it.

[EarlyMorningRain]

where there goes that then, as I don't have a hard drive for my H320. It came already modded with a CF card.

Anyone in the market for a (never used) 8gig and 16gig CF card(s)?


Curious why this can't be done on a working/installed/functioning/bootable CF card though?

what would be the process of steps if you don't mind me asking?
Something like this: ?

1) do the install of new CF card (or hard drive)
2) power up iRiver (won't boot at this point), plug in USB cable so I can see the iRiver in Windows
3) copy over the h300.hex file to root of CF card
4) reboot
5) install rockbox using the install utility
6) reboot and your done

wrong.

You need to have a harddisk installed, copy the h300.hex file to it and start the original iriver firmware. There you select 'upgrade firmware. Once that is done, you can proceed to install the CF card and copy rockbox on it.

[Arni99]

where there goes that then, as I don't have a hard drive for my H320. It came already modded with a CF card.

Anyone in the market for a (never used) 8gig and 16gig CF card(s)?


Curious why this can't be done on a working/installed/functioning/bootable CF card though?

what would be the process of steps if you don't mind me asking?
Something like this: ?

1) do the install of new CF card (or hard drive)
2) power up iRiver (won't boot at this point), plug in USB cable so I can see the iRiver in Windows
3) copy over the h300.hex file to root of CF card
4) reboot
5) install rockbox using the install utility
6) reboot and your done

wrong.

You need to have a harddisk installed, copy the h300.hex file to it and start the original iriver firmware. There you select 'upgrade firmware. Once that is done, you can proceed to install the CF card and copy rockbox on it.

That's what I did on my H120:
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,95239.msg1388440.html#msg1388440

[Chuck]

I've tried that file. It was a .zip file on that link that extracts out to a H300.hex file with a date code of 2-28-2008 (correct?)

correct

what would be the process of steps if you don't mind me asking?
Something like this: ?

1) do the install of new CF card (or hard drive)
2) power up iRiver (won't boot at this point), plug in USB cable so I can see the iRiver in Windows
3) copy over the h300.hex file to root of CF card
4) reboot
5) install rockbox using the install utility
6) reboot and your done

wrong.

You need to have a harddisk installed, copy the h300.hex file to it and start the original iriver firmware. There you select 'upgrade firmware'
Once that is done, you can proceed to install the CF card and copy rockbox on it.

Petur:

I can't find the Upgrade Firmware option anywhere in the menu.
I know that I'm looking for GENERAL > UPGRADE FIRMWARE (info from the manual), but I don't have that option on either of my iHP-1x0's...

FWIW, for some reason my iRiver dual boots between an old version of Rockbox and the latest version that was synced with the REP... Somehow I don't have the original iRiver software on it...

I can get the CF card to boot, to a Rockbox screen that flashes, but then it goes to a black white screen and freezes...