Topic: Iriver 120 Question

[Cheesecadet]

For those of you still running the 120, do you all defrag and do an error check every few shows *OR* do you re-format the entire drive and reload Rockbox?

The reason I ask is because my recording from last night has a couple millisecond jumps at various point of the recording and I am thinking it is because I have not defragged in a while.

I thought it might be because the drive needed to be defragged or error check the disc.

The other possibility I thought it might be a dirty optical jack or connector???  How does one clean an optical jack or connector anyway?

It's really weird because the little jumps that take place so quick are not dropouts...it's almost like it is missing a sample or two in there and just skipping forward?

Anyway I'm confused so if anyone has any insight to what this might be please respond or PM me...thanks!


Luckily, I had my M10 running flawlessly so I didn't screw up the whole night 

[jbell]

Are you running a hard drive or CF card??  Hard drive would need a defrag I would think.  I would do the CFmod, which is really easy and I think the irivers run better w/o a hard drive.  Faster and less battery draw. 

[Cheesecadet]

Yeah, it's the hard drive type not the CF Mod. 

I am not that handy with electronics so I never attempted it. 

[jbell]

I'm not either, but it is an easy mod.  It you are interested in beefing up your h120 pm me and I can help you out.  It's worth it if you use your Iriver as one of your main decks. 

Yeah, it's the hard drive type not the CF Mod. 

I am not that handy with electronics so I never attempted it.

[sunjan]

I never bothered to defrag when I still had the HDD, so much easier to just format and drop a new copy of Rockbox.

The CF mod is really a piece of cake, you don't have to be handy with electronics at all. My biggest problem was finding a shop selling T5 screwdrivers :-)

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I've had the same thing on mine when feeding it either an optical or analog signal. I was never able to isolate the cause though.

[Cheesecadet]

I've had the same thing on mine when feeding it either an optical or analog signal. I was never able to isolate the cause though.

Well that settles it then...if you had it via optical AND analog...it must the hard drive then.  There could be no other cause besides either the input format or the HD, right?

So this has made me purchase the CF adapter and modding this thing when it arrives.  Hopefully I can mod it myself with no issues.

Does anyone know if the newest build of rockbox allows you to change the peakmeter size like you could do in the REP?

[612]

"Cannot read from source file or disc."

Is there any way to save this file? I fear that h120 did not correctly format before recording this first show out.

[SmokinJoe]

"Cannot read from source file or disc."

Is there any way to save this file? I fear that h120 did not correctly format before recording this first show out.

Are you having problems with connecting the h120 to your computer?  I had problems with that... blow the dust out of the connector, try it a few times, try a different USB cable, it always worked eventually.

If the h120 can't read it's own disk, then probably the disk is gone.

By the way... I got one of those Torx 5 drivers at Sears... walked into the store and they had them for about $3.

[612]

"Cannot read from source file or disc."

Is there any way to save this file? I fear that h120 did not correctly format before recording this first show out.

I formatted the drive and reinstalled Rockbox (said goodbye to the recording) and things were fine for a couple of shows but now I'm experiencing the same problem. I have a recording that I can play fine from the h120 while connected to my pc but it won't let me copy it over. I've come to terms with the fact that it's time to retire this particular h120 (or do the CF card mod) but first I was wondering if there's a way to save files that will play on the h120 but not transfer over to a pc? Many thanks in advance!

[dallman]

"Cannot read from source file or disc."

Is there any way to save this file? I fear that h120 did not correctly format before recording this first show out.

I formatted the drive and reinstalled Rockbox (said goodbye to the recording) and things were fine for a couple of shows but now I'm experiencing the same problem. I have a recording that I can play fine from the h120 while connected to my pc but it won't let me copy it over. I've come to terms with the fact that it's time to retire this particular h120 (or do the CF card mod) but first I was wondering if there's a way to save files that will play on the h120 but not transfer over to a pc? Many thanks in advance!

Hi J,
At the very least you can go analog out from the headphone jack into another recorder line in, and save it that way. You can record at 24 bit and there really shouldnt be any noticible loss of sound.

[612]

I'm going to give that a go this weekend. Thank you!