iRiver H120 CF Mod Attempt - Success!

[taylordb]

Probably a very stupid question, but i am not well versed in CF cards.  Is 4gb the largest capacity card you can get that will fit into the iRiver?  Or is 4gb the max on any card?

[Javier Cinakowski]

Probably a very stupid question, but i am not well versed in CF cards.  Is 4gb the largest capacity card you can get that will fit into the iRiver?  Or is 4gb the max on any card?

32GB is the largest currently.

All Compact Flash cards are the same physical size, just the capacity it bigger.

[rokpunk]

just pulled my iriver out the other day to lend to a friend and it was making a bad hard drive noise.
i think i might have to go the CF route for this little workhorse of a recorder.

[rastasean]

It is not possible to take the CF Card out without taking the entire device apart out, is it. 

[AlexG]

It is not possible to take the CF Card out without taking the entire device apart out, is it. 

Pretty much

[gmm6797]

All Compact Flash cards are the same physical size, just the capacity it bigger.

Incorrect, there is CF and CFII

From here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_flash

Type I and Type II

The only difference between the two types is that the Type II devices are 5 mm thick while Type I devices are 3.3 mm thick.[8] The vast majority of all Type II devices are Microdrives and other miniature hard drives. Flash based Type II devices are rare but a few examples do exist.[9][10] Even the largest capacity cards commonly available are Type I cards and most card readers will read both formats with the exception of some early CF based cameras where the slot is too small and some of the poorer quality USB card readers with the same problem.

I own both kinds, and the thickness is different, so be careful

[petur]

although I haven't tried, there should be plenty of room in the h1x0/h3x0 to fit a CF-II card. But the only CF-II cards I ever saw were microdrives or non-storage.
The adapter may need to be modded to handle the thicker cards though...

[rokpunk]

i just took apart my hp120 to see if i could figure out why my HD was making noise...and i found a battery that was all swollen and puffy. took it out, replaced it with the factory original, and now it works fine. ordered the CF mod parts for about $20 total, so i'll swap out the HD regardless, just to loose the moving parts.

[gmm6797]

although I haven't tried, there should be plenty of room in the h1x0/h3x0 to fit a CF-II card. But the only CF-II cards I ever saw were microdrives or non-storage.
The adapter may need to be modded to handle the thicker cards though...

I own a 8gb simpleTech CFII card, it works like a champ in my 671, just real slow to copy back to the PC

[petur]

i just took apart my hp120 to see if i could figure out why my HD was making noise...and i found a battery that was all swollen and puffy. took it out, replaced it with the factory original, and now it works fine. ordered the CF mod parts for about $20 total, so i'll swap out the HD regardless, just to loose the moving parts.

hehe, I had the exact same issue with my battery. Got a CameronSino one now that is sooo much better

[lordbelial]

It would be pretty interesting to collect all the data regarding the necessary stuff you need to mod your Iriver into CF (step by step mod, hardware needed, references, vendors, prices, etc...) and then stick this topic, would not it?

[petur]

It would be pretty interesting to collect all the data regarding the necessary stuff you need to mod your Iriver into CF (step by step mod, hardware needed, references, vendors, prices, etc...) and then stick this topic, would not it?

part of that can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CFModGuide, maybe just a bit too technical

[lordbelial]

It would be pretty interesting to collect all the data regarding the necessary stuff you need to mod your Iriver into CF (step by step mod, hardware needed, references, vendors, prices, etc...) and then stick this topic, would not it?

part of that can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CFModGuide, maybe just a bit too technical

It's exactly what I was looking for!
I'm really dying in wishes to jump over a dead HD iriver so I can perform the mod myself...

[sunjan]

I'm really dying in wishes to jump over a dead HD iriver so I can perform the mod myself...

Maybe Petur can answer this, but my impression was that you can't start out with a crashed HD, because you need to juggle the firmware back and forth to the HD before you can boot the CF.
Or was this restriction only for the H3xx series???

/J

[Chuck]

It would be pretty interesting to collect all the data regarding the necessary stuff you need to mod your Iriver into CF (step by step mod, hardware needed, references, vendors, prices, etc...) and then stick this topic, would not it?

part of that can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CFModGuide, maybe just a bit too technical

I read that wiki and I just made the waters muddier for me.
I just need someone to patch the latest Rockbox SVN with the REP and I'll be all set!