john wrote:
I wonder if just plugging a 80GB drive into an Iriver might work. I guess, the boot loader of the IPOD has been patched for the 80GB drive. But what about the boot loader for the Irivers, IAudios and Gigabeats? And does rockbox on all platforms automatically support the 80GB drive?
The 5.5G problems are specific to the drive that ships with the iPod, and is not a general 80GB problem. Rockbox has no issues with 80GB drives in general. Other people have fitted 80GB drives in irivers without problems.
And what about the 160GB drive? ATA 28 Bit addressing might be a problem, limiting access to 137GB. But didn't I read that the 80GB drive uses 1kb blocks? Does this mean, that the limit is 274GB, so the 160GB drive would work out of the box with rockbox in an IPOD 5.5?
Rockbox can do 48-bit LBA addressing, so there is no problem there. The problem is instead that the USB-ATA chip on the iriver cannot handle LBA48, so you can't access the entire drive over USB. You will have to partition the drive so that the space > 128GB is dedicated to Rockbox. Not very convenient.
Linus
