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1. 1 On January 16th, 2008, Modding : Apple Video Ipod (5g & 5.5g) - The Compact Flash Version - Tarkan Akdam’s BORED said:

   [...] UPDATE: iFlash iPod Compact Flash adaptor has been launched. More information can be found here. [...]

2. 2 On January 17th, 2008, Corey said:

   After restoring your iPod with iTunes did you need to connect your iPod to an external power source? I have found this is necessary for the iPod mini but it would save me a trip to Walmart if it is not needed on an iPod video.

3. 3 On January 18th, 2008, Tarkan said:

   No need for external power.
   Once you restore the iPod with iTunes, the iPod will work exactly like before and charge via the usb – data lead.

4. 4 On January 26th, 2008, Christian said:

   Thanks Tarkan! I just got the adapter and put in a 32GB compact flash card in my girlfriend’s iPod! Everything seems to be working alright.

5. 5 On January 26th, 2008, Tarkan said:

   Hi Christian, You’ve stolen my thunder – I am publishing my 32GB CF Ipod article on Saturday. and you’ve beat me to it!!!

   Thanks for the feedback regardless and enjoy….

6. 6 On January 26th, 2008, The 32Gb Compact Flash Ipod - Tarkan Akdam’s BORED said:

   [...] Launched : iFlash Ipod Compact Flash Adapter (mk II) [...]

7. 7 On January 31st, 2008, kareem said:

   Would this connector work for hdd camcorders? I have a Sony HDR-SR1, and it is extremely easy to replace the hard disc drive with another hdd that has a ZIF connector.

   http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/how-to-add-more-storage-to-your-sony-hdrsr1-camcorder-223903.php

   Could this work? or is the ZIF connection specific for iPods?

   Thanks!

8. 8 On January 31st, 2008, Tarkan said:

   The circuit and the ZIF connector will work in your Sony camcorder. Just need to make sure the camcorder has enough space for the adaptor.

9. 9 On February 3rd, 2008, Benson said:

   Does this work with 4G 40Gb ipods??

10. 10 On February 3rd, 2008, Tarkan said:

    No sorry only the 5g 5.5g Video Ipods – for 4g read this instructable. It covers modifying the 4g iPods.

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Convert-your-4th-Gen-iPod-to-use-Flash-Memory/

11. 11 On February 10th, 2008, Nick said:

    i have to say this is the best mod you could do. i have been using this adapter with a 32GB x133 card for almost a month in my ipod video it is incredible, very fast, reliable & i get a lot more battery life!

12. 12 On February 10th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Nick, which 32Gb card are you using? Also do you have any timings for the syncing / transfer speed from Computer to iPod?

13. 13 On February 26th, 2008, Command-Tab » iPod 5G Hack: Bluetooth and CompactFlash said:

    [...] attached to the ever-shrinking connectors inside the iPod. You can get the full details and photos here, and see more hacks at [...]

14. 14 On February 27th, 2008, Robert said:

    I’m anxious to buy please answer my e-mail
    Thanks
    -Robert

15. 15 On February 28th, 2008, Alqvimista said:

    What about a 3G Pod?

    Thanks.

16. 16 On March 7th, 2008, Jurriaan said:

    You can order a adapter for your 3G iPod at http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/767/put-flash-memory-into-almost-any-ipod .
    Tarkan, is does your adapter work for the iPod Classic?

17. 17 On March 14th, 2008, Tom said:

    Would it be possible to fit the 60/80GB battery into the case of a 30GB when using cf??

18. 18 On March 14th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Not sure, but I doubt it. The 60/80Gb battery is a few mm thicker than the 30Gb, but several companies now supply greater capacity 30Gb batteries and combined with the iFlash adaptor – you will get very good battery life.

19. 19 On March 18th, 2008, Woot! My 30gb RWA iMod is now 32gb flash based! - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio said:

    [...] Posted by Than What adapter did you use? This guy in the UK developed a very slick adapter. Works great! And, yes, it is fully functional. I’m listening to music as I type. [...]

20. 20 On March 19th, 2008, Mike P said:

    Hello Tarkan,

    The adapter is working great! Many thanks for a high quality product. I am spreading the news about this
    mod and expect to see some demand for it as the Summer approaches. Will keep you posted.

    I have a question for you regarding the iPOD Classic and 3rd Gen Nano. As you know the front case is aluminum cast
    and is extremely difficult to seperate from the back case without damage. I am wondering if you have found anyone
    out there that has been successful in removing these cases without damage or replacement required?? This seems to
    be a huge comodity right now, and I am willing to pay for the services for those that can open in a high quality
    method. Or better yet, have a “fixture” that can be purchased that would allow for opening them. Let me know if you
    can help or have a line on someone I can contact. Appreciate your time and reply.

    Best regards,

    Mike

21. 21 On March 19th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi Mike, Glad the adaptor has worked out for you.

    Apple have really moved bar in terms of the fittings on the Classic and 3rd Gen Nano. Few weeks back I had to fix someones Nano that had been dropped and I had destroy the case back to get it open.

    I am not sure it can be done as the clips cannot be accessed, but I would need to study the case back some more – so if you have a case back that you can send me that would be a good start.

22. 22 On March 20th, 2008, New hard drive for video ipod or buy Sansa Fuze? - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio said:

    [...] OR, you can get a CF card and install it in your iPod (5th gen) using this adapter…. Launched : iFlash Ipod Compact Flash Adapter (mk II) – Tarkan Akdam’s BORED [...]

23. 23 On April 5th, 2008, Scott said:

    First off – terrific adapter. Very well thought out and took me all of 10 minutes to do the switch. I haven’t had any real issues with the player but if my player is off for more than 24 hours, when I go to turn on the iPod I get the screen telling me I need to connect it to my computer and restore it through iTunes. If I do a reboot then it works fine. This is a very minor annoyance but I thought I would ask if you’ve experienced this and know any possible work arounds. Otherwise, it is working flawlessly.

    I’m using A-Data’s 32gb CF if it matters.

    Thanks again for a great product!

    -Scott

24. 24 On April 5th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    The issues you noticed is sadly a bug in the apple firmware.

    When you turn the iPod off it goes in to a sleep mode – it stays in this sleep mode for anything from 8 hours to 36 hours (time is dependent on battery level and battery condition), after which it switches to a deep sleep.

    When the iPod is resuming from the deep sleep it reloads the operating system from the drive, I’d say something like a soft reset – however it is this which is the problem. The firmware polls the CF card and does not wait long enough or is not told to wait by the CF card – so it throws an error. The funny things is this problem sometimes occurs with the hard drives as well, it seems the time-out for the resume from deep sleep is very aggressive.

    I am still experimenting with this issue but I think UDMA and certain very fast CF cards have the speed and communication skills to ask the iPod to hang on while it gets ready (like the hard drive would do). So they do not seem to be effected by this bug.

    As a side note, when this restore message occurs the iPod will switch off after a few seconds and hitting the menu button will get it to restart normally – you do not have to initiate a hard reset.

    I will have an article up once I have investigated this further.

25. 25 On April 5th, 2008, Scott said:

    I see. Makes total sense. Thank you for the response – it is much appreciated.

    Keep up the great work!

26. 26 On April 5th, 2008, Adam said:

    With regard to the comments made by Scott on the 5th April, I cannot agree more, a fantastic product. I too have the same issue when the iPod has been left off for more than 8 hours, I have just been reseting until now. I did wonder if this was the PEAK 16 Gb I have been using or the iPod itself.

    I have had another problem where I can operate the iPod but no tracks actually play, every track I try just sits at 0.00, however a quick reset fixes this and all is normal again, this has only happened twice in two weeks use. This could be fault with the iPod itself, I bought the iPod used on ebay, it had a faulty drive and drive cable.

    Thanks for a great product.

    - Adam

27. 27 On April 5th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Like my response to Scott, restore message is a combination of the apple firmware and slow CF cards.

    I never seen the ipod not playing tracks and just sitting at 0.00 – that would occur if it cannot find the track. I would to run a chkdsk command on the iPod drive (you may need to enable disk use in iTunes). You could have a corrupt filesystem.

28. 28 On April 6th, 2008, david said:

    would the ipod appear on my computer as a mass storage device so i can add music with out the need for itunes?

29. 29 On April 6th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    No, the iFlash only changes the storage medium – the iPod operates exactly as normal versions.

    However, if you want to avoid the use of iTunes than I suggest these two options.

    one option is ml_ipod plugin for Winamp which can be found here http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/

    second options is to install the rockbox operating system which would allows your ipod to be used as a mass storage device where the music is dropped in to directories on the drive.

    Hope this helps…

30. 30 On April 12th, 2008, Edmond said:

    Is it possible to use compact flash in 1st Gen iPod?

31. 31 On April 16th, 2008, Adam said:

    Looks like my 16Gb PEAK card was flaky, the iPod decided it wanted to be restored but the 16Gb card was not having it. I popped the suspect card into an iPod Mini that was using a 2Gb CF card and into numerous card readers but nothing could access the 16GB card.

    I have never encountered a dodgy CF card before ( have I just been lucky?) but the supplier has agreed to replace the PEAK card so I will see how it goes when I get a new CF card.

    I have put one of your adapters and an A-Data 32Gb CF card into a friends iPod, and so far so good. Their only comment was it took about 3 hours to sync 26Gb of music, hopefully they won’t have to do this too often. To be honest I don’t know how long it takes to sync this amount to blank HD based iPod.

    Adam

32. 32 On April 16th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Dodgy CF cards are rare. Having said that I have had about 2 cards fail on me in the last few years.

    Yeah the A-Data is not the fastest tool in the box. I measured the A-Data transfers topout at 3MB/s where as the hard drive can achieve 11Mb/s.

    Good news, modern UDMA cards can transfer as fast as the hard drive. My old Sandisk Extreme III card has the same transfer speed as the hard drive.

33. 33 On April 25th, 2008, Mike H said:

    My adapter came a couple days ago – nice job on fast shipping! I immediately tried it with two different 1-GB CF cards I have: a plain old Sandisk, and a Sandisk Ultra II. The plain Sandisk refused to work – I couldn’t even read or write to it in disk mode, all I/O errors. I figured it was just too old to be recognized properly, so no big deal. The Ultra II card worked perfectly, like a dream. So I decided to order an 8 GB Transcend card (133x).

    The Transcend card came today, and I’ve spent the last 6 hours banging my head against the wall trying to get it to work. I/O is fine – I can read and write in disk mode with no corruption. But any time I restore the iPod from iTunes, I get the dreaded recovery mode loop. Even though the firmware appears to copy over just fine, the iPod is absolutely convinced that it still needs to be restored after rebooting.

    I have scoured the internet and I’ve tried everything I can possibly think of. Different computers, old firmware, newest firmware, Windows format, Mac format, disk mode, normal mode, reset iPod. I even repartitioned it to move the firmware partition to different blocks on the card to see if that would do it. Everything I tried worked like a champ in the Ultra II card, failed on the Transcend card.

    Again, I/O to the card while it’s in the iPod works just fine. From the computer I can partition it, format it, copy files, low-level block copy the firmware, everything without corruption or errors. I’m stumped!

    I’m sending the card back to the vendor for a replacement in the small hope that I just got a bad card with a really obscure glitch. If the replacement doesn’t work, I’ll either settle for the 1 GB Ultra II (a bit small!) or shop around for another card. I hate to keep buying different cards, as this was supposed to be a low-cost replacement to hold me over for a while after I dropped and broke the original hard drive from this iPod.

    Anyone else have good or bad luck with the Transcend cards? Aside from that issue, the adapter itself seems to be great!

34. 34 On April 25th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi Mike,

    I have had a couple of people mention they had issues with the 16Gb 133x Transcend, but also people who I know are using them with no problems.

    Interestingly someone in the USA sent me a 8Gb Transcend 133x for testing ( picture here:- http://www.tarkan.info/images/Transcend8Gb_133x.jpg )

    This card has been working ok in a 5g Video iPod with the latest 1.3 firmware, is this the same card as yours?

    It could be that Transcend just have bad quality control.

    At least you know the iFlash and your iPod are working ok!!

    Let me know how you get on.

35. 35 On April 25th, 2008, Mike H said:

    Hi Tarkan,

    Yeah, that’s exactly the same card I have. Good to know that it’s been working for you, gives me hope that a replacement will work. The odd thing is that everything else seems fine with this card – if I were using it in my camera, I’d probably notice nothing wrong at all!

    It goes back in the mail today, hopefully the replacement comes next week. I’ll let you know how it goes.

36. 36 On April 25th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Mike, have you tried the diskpart command in windows to delete the partition table – and then re-attempt the restore process?

    I have had issues where iTunes would not bother rewriting the partition table if it can see the small 40Mb partition it creates to store the iPod O/S.

    By deleting the partition table will force iTunes to do a complete restore.

37. 37 On May 3rd, 2008, Dave Marcotte said:

    Hi Tarkan,
    I wanted to share with everyone my experience using your CF adapter for my broken iPod.

    I have a G5 Video iPod and it started having the click of death a week or so ago. I tried everything to get it to restore, but perhaps because the battery also ran down, I was having no luck. So I decided to try your adapter.

    We’ll, I’m completely satisfied with it. I received it the other day and last night I followed your installation video and within less than 5 minutes my iPod was restored and working using a 4GB CF card I had. I’m stoked!!!

    I’ll eventually get a 32GB card, but for now, it runs much faster than it did with the HD, and from what I’ve read it will use less battery power as well. But even better, I can now go jogging with it, which I couldn’t have done with the HD in it without risking the click of death again.

    So I wanted to give you the kudos you deserve for bring to market something that works so flawlessly and much improves the original design of the HD based ipods.

    For anyone who’s hesitating, I can say that I had a flawless experience ordering and even installing the adapter and hope this encourages others out there to spend the few bucks for a much better upgrade to their iPod.

    Thanks Tarkan.
    Dave Marcotte

    PS, shipping was also quick, even coming from GB to USA. Thanks for being so responsive.

38. 38 On May 3rd, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Dave,

    Thank you for your kind words and for the feedback – I am glad you like your iFlash’ed iPod.

    That is the beauty of flash storage is no more click of death. As memory capacity goes up and prices go down – it is easy to swap out the CF card when necessary!!

39. 39 On June 2nd, 2008, Alex said:

    Hi !! I just got a new gen Ipod Nano..(8G) and I wonder if I could use your product to fit in it or is it just for the larger video ipod ? hope so..

    thanks a lot

    regards, continue your great work
    Alex

40. 40 On June 5th, 2008, Rob said:

    Hi, thanks for the adapter, it works great. I bought an iPod classic 80gb on ebay and the hard drive was faulty. With care i managed to open up the ipod classic and fit your adapter inside. It fits perfectly. Not tried getting the lid back on yet!! Shud be ok. I had a 1gb lying around so i used that but im going to buy a larger capacity CF card. The casing has to be bent out to release the clips, hope i can put it back together to make it look as good. The interface is really fast now, no more waiting around for cover artwork to load. Coverflow is much better.

    Here are some pics:
    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02854.jpg
    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02855.jpg

41. 41 On June 6th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Alex, Sadly it is only designed for Video iPods (5g, 5.5g, and 6g Classics). The new Nano’s are very problamtic – to open up you need to damage the rear casing and also the flash memory is soldered – so any upgrading would need major solder reworking skills.

    Rob, Thanks for the feedback!!! I am glad the Classic has worked for you – I have had a Classic here for the last few months and having tested around 8 different CF cards I could only get it to work with the Sandisk Ultra / Extreme range.

    You have been very lucky to get it working with a cheapo Jessops card!! To save you some time and money I have tried the following cards with no joy.

    32Gb Adata
    16Gb Adata
    8Gb Samsung 150x OEM
    16Gb Samsung 280x OEM
    8Gb Transcend
    16Gb Transcend
    16Gb Peak Technology

    I would be really interested in knowing what the iPod reports about the CF card you are using. To do this enter test mode (press back and select buttons during boot up, scroll down to i/o and select hard drive).

    Can you tell me the info displayed on the hard drive screen.

42. 42 On June 7th, 2008, Rob said:

    Thankyou for the advice about the CF Cards. I actually bought an 8gb sandisk ultra II on ebay but when i put it in it only showed 2gb (it seemed to work with the ipod though), so i checked it in my PC and its only got 2gb. Im pretty sure its a fake, so im getting a refund. This is bad news, i was thinking of getting a 16gb if the refund works through and the 16gb sandisks are expensive. Maybe ill get a real Sandisk 8gb instead cos they are a good quality brand. Anyway, i just pulled up the HDD Specs and heres what i got:

    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02856.jpg

    Doesnt mean much to me but hope it helps. Do you know why the compatibility for 6g should be different to 5g.

43. 43 On June 9th, 2008, Rob said:

    Hi again, what is the problem with those cards btw? Do they get past the restore process??

    Anyway, do you think a Lexar premium II 80x will work?

44. 44 On June 10th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi Rob,

    Thanks for the screenshot. I just wanted to see what information the Classic was reading from the CF cards.

    For example the Sandisk cards caused an error on the HHD Spec screen, where as all the other cards I tested reported their serial numbers and firmware correctly.

    Before your posting and testing, I had assumed the sandisk worked because they did not report the fact they are CF cards.

    Now I am thinking maybe this is not the case – all my Sandisk cards are 4Gb and below, where as all the other cards I tested were 8Gb and above.

    The problem with the cards I listed is that they work fine in disk mode and through the iPod you can read and write on to them, but they do not get past the restore screen.

    I think it is either the Apple firmware which is not happy with you using a CF cards or that firmware is not happy with the partition table or byte layout on CF cards.

    Sadly, I gave up with the classic so returned it to the owner – if I can get hold of a 16Gb Sandisk Extreme card maybe you can try it for me.

45. 45 On June 18th, 2008, Rob said:

    Hi Tarkan,
    The refund came through and i bought an 8gb Lexar Platinum 80x from mymemory for £20.99 bargain!! Anyway, it works like a charm. So far ive tried Jessops 1gb, IBM 1gb Microdrive and Lexar 80x 8gb. All of them have worked for me. For you it may have been a problem with your ipod, or maybe the ribbon cable, or even you adapter. Anyway, just to let you know that im working with iPod Classic with 8gb Lexar.

    Rob

46. 46 On June 18th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi Rob,

    Thanks for the feedback. The Classic I had was fine with the Sandisk cards.

    Having said that I would class Lexar to be equal to Sandisk in quality and technology for CF cards – so maybe all the larger capacity budget brand cards are out of the question for the iPod Classic.

47. 47 On June 24th, 2008, Chris said:

    This looks great. Will it work on the iPod classic. Just thinking ahead for a drive failure.

48. 48 On June 25th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Chris,

    Yep!! the adaptor fits and works in the new iPod Classic (6g).

    The firmware is fussy about the CF cards that can be used – I hope to have an article up once some more testing has been done.

49. 49 On June 26th, 2008, Desi (Norway) said:

    Tusen takk, Tarkan! [Thank you, very much!] The 2 adapters arrived in all haste, but I had to chew my nails 9 days longer for the 32GB Transcend CF card to arrive from the U.S. The wait has paid off. I installed both adapter and card, restored the iPod and synched 687 songs and 52 podcasts in 35 minutes (Windows XP). Yes, slower than the hard disk, but reliable. I look forward to seeing how this works out over time and usage. Great work!
    One glitch, however: the first of the 2 adapters which I tried to fit into my iPod would not seize hold of the ZIP connector strip. After closing the clamp bar, the connector persisted in slipping out. The 2nd adapter (not bought backup purposes, but for a 2nd iPod – yet, thankfully (!) available right away) held onto the connector and fit as it should. [It seems that the slot does not open deep enough to accommodate a sufficient length of the connector. This was true of the drive connector for the 2nd iPod as well.] Any suggestions?

50. 50 On June 26th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi Desi,

    Glad you like the adaptor and it is working for you!!

    I wonder if the ribbon connector backing plastic has moved, could I ask you to email me a photo of the connection front and back.

    Have you tested the 2nd adaptor yet? if it is faulty let me know and I will have another one sent out to you.

51. 51 On June 28th, 2008, Rob said:

    Hi Tarkan,
    Received your 32GB today, good news is that it seems to work ok for me in the classic!! Before i started, i did a fat32 format with gparted to make sure it wasnt confused by the firmware already on the CF card. I slotted it in and it said restore, so i did and hey presto it works. Ive taken a couple more pictures as proof. Interestingly when i go to HDSpecs in the diagnostics mode, the serial no contains the “CF CARD”. I will send it back, asap for you, unless theres any other testing that you wish me to do. It is very strange how it did not work for you. Its a shame you still dont have your classic.

    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02913.jpg
    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02914.jpg
    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02915.jpg
    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02916.jpg
    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02917.jpg
    http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc58/rob2910/DSC02918.jpg – Diagnostics mode “SMart Data” comes up with an error, but that happened with the previous CF cards too.

    Thanks ,Rob

52. 52 On June 29th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Rob, this is excellent news. With your testing it is beginning to look like the same cards which work on the 5g will work on the 6g Ipods.

    I will email you directly shortly.

53. 53 On June 30th, 2008, Repaired iPod, iPod Repair - passion is disorder of the mind, madness said:

    [...] converting from HDD to Flash [...]

54. 54 On August 5th, 2008, Macon said:

    ok, I have an off-topic question. your posts have all been about the iflash for the ipod 5G, 5.5G, and 6G. I’ve recently stumbled upon a topic in this link: http://epizenter.net/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?167471 about the creative Zen Vision:M with a dead hard drive being revived/resurrected by a ZIF to compact flash adapter being sold at ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310033632991 which I think has a lower quality than the adapter you are making/selling. I was wondering If your adapter is similar to the one on ebay, and would it work on the creative zen vision:M? Also, would it fit the Zen Vision:M? Thanks in advance to your reply.

55. 55 On August 5th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi,

    The problem with them cheap Taiwanese adaptors is the bad Zif connector, they are very poor quality and not designed for the same thickness FPC as the Apple hard drive FPC, I think about 15% of the iFlash buyers are people who have tried the cheap adaptors first – they find they get intermittent connection issues and the fact that the adaptor stresses the FPC causing failure.

    I have never owned a Zen Vision:M, I would think electrically the iFlash will work fine, but it is will it fit inside the Zen which is the unknown thing….

    I do offer refunds on the iFlash, so you are free to order one and return it if you find it unsuitable.

56. 56 On August 12th, 2008, EgitimTUBE said:

    Thanks Very good

57. 57 On August 20th, 2008, jher said:

    Adapter received, video ipod drive replaced with a-data speedy 16GB flash card and up and running in less than a 30 minutes! It seems amazingly light now that the old 30GB drive is out! Thanks for making this product!

58. 58 On August 22nd, 2008, Hammid B said:

    Tarkan,

    I bought and installed your adapter into my 60GB iPod video 5G and enjoy the better battery life and less weight. Thanks!

    I also have a Fujitsu u810 and experimented with using a CF as a harddrive. The CF/hard disk adapter I have installed in it supports up to UDMA 4, but the CF (32GB 300x) I have in it will support UDMA 5. I was thinking of switching the u810’s adapter with the one I bought from you, but I want to know if your adapter supports UDMA 5 before making the swap. I’ve used your adapter in the u810 with a slower CF before (32GB 133x UDMA 4 comapatible), so I know your adapter will work, but I really want the UDMA 5 to be enabled for maximum speed. If your adapter can provide the UDMA 5 compatibility, then I’ll do the swap.

    Please let me know…

    Thanks!
    Hammid B.

59. 59 On August 22nd, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi Hammid,

    Glad you like your iFlash’d iPod.

    The iFlash is fully UDMA compatible, so in theory should give you the highest transfer speed available between the host and slave devices.

    In practice you may find it is very different. Some of the ratings on these devices need to be taken with a huge pinch of salt!!!!

60. 60 On August 26th, 2008, Dan B. said:

    I received my iFlash earlier today (4 days to the U.S.) and just finished syncing and doing a play test on my iPod. I don’t know if it’s any snappier, but it’s definitely not slower. Installation went fine except I think I’ve discovered I should have formatted the CF card (a 32GB AData) prior to installing it. Instead, the first time I attempted to restore the iPod, it froze halfway through, and went into an infinite reboot loop. I removed the CF card, reformatted it (Mac HFS+ Journaled), and reconnected everything. After some testing, I was able to put the iPod into Disk Mode ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363?viewlocale=en_US ) and restored it again – now it works perfectly.

    Tomorrow I’ll test it throughout the day, but it’s working great so far.

61. 61 On September 9th, 2008, Brandon said:

    imagine an ipod nano with 64 gb ultimate ipod!!!!!!!!!

62. 62 On September 12th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Yeah all we need now is 64Gb cards that are affordable!!!

63. 63 On September 15th, 2008, Robbie said:

    Hi guys, I am gonna give this mod a go but I was wondering has anyone who ordered the 32GB card from Newegg been stung for duty. I am in Europe and was wondering if I can get the card without being hit for duty as I am thinking of ordering 4 of them. Any help would be great. Thanks!

64. 64 On September 15th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Robbie, I don’t think Newegg sell international, but someone else may correct me.

    The best way is if you know anyone in American who do the purchase for you then forward the cards on to you.

65. 65 On September 15th, 2008, Robbie said:

    Many thanks for that Tarkan, I’ll organise someone to get these for me and post them back, or is there an alternative?

66. 66 On September 16th, 2008, Hammid B said:

    Tarkan,

    Well, I found out the problem with using your adapter (or any other 1.8″ CF-to-IDE ZIF adapters) in a Fujitsu u810 and not achieving UDMA Mode 5 speeds. Apparently, 300x CFs need to run at 3.3VDC to achieve UDMA Mode 5 speeds. My 300x CF can use both 3.3VDC and 5VDC, but it can only operate in UDMA Mode 4 if it uses 5VDC, which is what the u810 provides.

    I need some type of transformer “thingy” to knock the 5VDC down to 3.3VDC in order to use your card at UDMA Mode 5 speeds. I’ve found other cards that have voltage selectors on their boards, but none with a ZIF connection.

    Any ideas how I can knock the voltage down to 3.3VDC on the adapter?

    Thanks,
    Hammid B.

    P.S. Your adapter is still working great in my 5G “60GB now 32GB” iPod video. I love how light the thing is now.

67. 67 On September 17th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi Hammid,

    Have you measured the voltage and is it 5v? The problem with dropping the supply voltage to 3.3v is that CF interface on the u810 will still be working at 5v levels which will probably cause issues.

    One things you can try is that my adaptor forces the CF card in to 3.3v mode when you say the u810 is working the card at 5v. To switch the card to 5v mode you need to remove pin 33.

68. 68 On September 21st, 2008, microft said:

    Hi, I made the this mod to an 5th Gen iPod video.
    Seems to work and the battery life is arounf 13,5 hours (tested).

    The only issue is that when I turn on the ipod I get the same error message you get when when you replace the HDD for the CF card. It tells you to connect it to the computer. However if I reboot the ipod (Menu+Center) it boots fine. Anyone else having this happen to them?

    Thanks! Loved this mod!

69. 69 On September 26th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Microft, Glad you like your iFlash’d iPod – it is rather good isn’t it (even if I do say so myself!!!).

    Are you getting the restore message after you leave iPod off overnight? if so that has been discussed previsouly due to the iPod firmwares agressive resume from deep sleep timings.

    However, if you are getting that message everytime you are turning the iPod on – then it could be you have a bad partition table on the card, you would need to remove the card and rewrite the paritition table either via partition software or fdisk, etc.

70. 70 On September 28th, 2008, microft said:

    It’s only when I leave it overnight. I had a feeling it had something to do with timings.
    I’m going to search the other comments for a solution or try to install RockBox.

    Thanks!

    PS – I’ve been getting around 14hours of continuous play. This is awsome!

71. 71 On September 29th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    It is not that much of a issue, if you just let the iPod power down then press menu again it will power up ok.

    The other options is to leave the iPod in a dock, so it never enters deep sleep.

    Becareful with Rockbox, looks like they have updated to version 3 and you may have issues with it and the iFlash – I am hoping to do some testing over the next couple of days.

72. 72 On October 7th, 2008, george said:

    Installed the flash card in my 5G iPod. I get the message about restoring the iPod, then prompt for admin password. However, when I restore I get the dialog:
    The iPod “iPod” could not be restored because it is busy.

    This is on a Mac with iTunes 8.0.1

73. 73 On October 28th, 2008, Macon said:

    Hello Tarkan, it’s me again. Hope the ipod classic project is doing well.

    I’m commenting here again because last time I mentioned the microdia CF you said it was vaporware.

    Now Pretec just released their own CF cards, a 48gb and a 100gb one. I’m wondering if it’s compatible with your adapter. Hope you do an update on the compact flash ipods and see if these cards are compatible

74. 74 On October 29th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    You’re right they have become real. Sadly the price is too real as well I think the Microdia 64Gb is running at US$350 – so long way to go before it is affordable.

    I do want to try them but Sterling (£) is going to sh*t against the US Dollar so it has become too expensive me for me to purchase.

    But I do hope to get hold of these new cards to do some testing as soon as I can……

75. 75 On November 4th, 2008, Macon said:

    Ouch! that high eh? At least the prices of the 32gb CF cards have gone down, right? The last time I checked a 32gb Ridata Compact Flash card costs 112 dollars on egghead. I wouldn’t be surprised if the price has gone down further than that. Anyways, have you released a full list of the compatible flash cards that work with the adapter?

76. 76 On November 5th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Scrub that newegg have the 32Gb A-Data up at $64 !!!

    List is slowly coming together, you can find the current list in that article.

77. 77 On November 5th, 2008, PghBiker said:

    I have a 5th gen 80gig. I mounted it on my bike so road vibrations over 60 MPH would cause it to frequently stop playing and lock up, finally the drive just died.
    Bought one of these a few weeks ago, sure I lost 50 gig of space and had to cut my music library in half, But it was well worth it.
    I just have to say THANKS.

78. 78 On November 6th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Thanks for the feedback – it is nice hearing peoples experience with my iFlash….

79. 79 On November 13th, 2008, Richard said:

    I’m going to sound a bit dense here, but how do you open the ZIP connector? I’ve tried putting a little bit of pressure on the side the cable would go in, but I don’t know if I’m supposed to lift up or push back toward the circuit board, or what. The thing looks so fragile that I’m afraid to exert too much pressure because I might break it.

    Would in be possible to put up a few pictures showing it in the open position with maybe a few pointers on how to get it open. The light colored part just does not seem to want to move. I’ve tried using an iPod opening tool to get into the slot that the cable goes in and lift up, but that doesn’t seem to be right.

80. 80 On November 13th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Richard,

    The black bar is what locks the ZIF connector.

    If you place the adaptor down in front of you, with the black bar of the zif connector away from you (white part nearest to you). Place a finger on the black bar and gently pull up and towards yourself – this should lift and rotate the bar to unlock the Zif.

    If you need anymore help ask – have you watched the video? I show the Zif connector operation.

81. 81 On November 22nd, 2008, Frank said:

    Hello Tarkan,
    your Adaptor works fine with Transcend 16 Gb 133 CF
    in our I pod 5G 30 Gb

    Thanks from Berlin

    Frank

82. 82 On December 24th, 2008, Dave said:

    Hi Tarkan,
    I bought the mkII and am very happy with it. But now I want to upgrade from my 4gb CF card to a 16gb card and am thinking I want to use an SD card instead.

    Do you think this SD to CF adapter would work:
    http://www.amazon.com/Type-Adapter-SDHC-Supported-SD-CF/dp/B000YZGCIU/ref=pd_cp_e_0?pf_rd_p=413863501&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000NVD1ZW&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=10946SKJCAXZCH6EKWGG

    Is your mkII adapter a CFI or CFII type adapter? Which type of CF card / adapter will be compatible?
    Thanks,
    Dave

83. 83 On December 24th, 2008, Tarkan said:

    Hi Dave,

    I have a long time ago test a SD to CF adaptor and that worked with a cheap 2Gb SD card. Someone did try a newer SDHC to CF adaptor with a 16Gb SDHC – I don’t think that worked but it was not investigated further.

    The iFlash will work with type 1 or 2 CF cards – the type 2 are 5mm thick compared to the type 1 3.3mm. The 5mm CF type 2 cards will fit inside the iPod it will be tight.

    I would suggest getting a 16Gb CF card they are so cheap now.
    http://www.tarkan.info/20080506/blog/iflash-compact-flash-compatibility-help-needed
    For a list of CF cards that have been reported to work.

84. 84 On December 31st, 2008, Dave said:

    Tarkan,

    My name is also Dave. I live in the Seattle, WA, USA area. I just stumbled on your 32Gb Compact Flash iPod mod on your blog. Great post!

    I’ve been looking for an adapter similar to your “iFlash – Compact Flash Adapter” however, with a bit of a twist. What I need is an adapter that connects CF/CFII MALE (as in a CF card end) to the iPod ZIF. I want to adapt a 60GB or higher 1.8″ format HDD to connect to a standard CF/CFII slot of another (not iPod) portable electronic device.

    I’m wondering if you’d be willing to provide a design based on yours that I could use to have fabricated, or if you could design and provide one.
    Please email to discuss possibilities.

    Thanks,
    Dave in Seattle

85. 85 On January 4th, 2009, Tarkan said:

    Dave,

    What you are after maybe possible – you could have one issue. Most electronics which use CF cards tend to use them in PC card mode which would not work with the HDD. If the device does use the CF cards in True ATA IDE emulation mode then building an adaptor should be easy.

86. 86 On January 20th, 2009, mark said:

    Just installed my CF, and it goes into the restore loop, I can write to the card and it seems to work fine, I noticed something about diskpart where you said to remove a partition, since I am not all that great with that stuff and I already checked it out online, could you possibly walk me through it?
    appreciate anything!!!

87. 87 On January 29th, 2009, FS: RWA 32GB FLASH Imod 5g (somewhat rare- I think) - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio said:

    [...] Apple refurb store in April. I wanted to do an upgradeable flash version with a flash adapter from here (just like in the flash mini thread) and this 32mb flash card. I went with the 30gb ipod because I [...]

88. 88 On February 7th, 2009, Jason Price said:

    Hey there!

    I ordered one of these a few weeks ago (The order from Canada) and have been messing about for the last 2 weeks. I have a couple of questions and issues…

    First, the adapter works great as I have a ZIF to IDE adapter and hooked the iFlask with a 4 GB Sandisk Ultra II on it and it was all seen as a hard drive by a PC. I was able to boot with Acronis Disk Director and delete the partition and everything was going well.

    And then…

    I removed the bad drive in the 5G Video and replaced it with the iFlash. I have since been unable to get multiple PCs to be able to properly recognize the iPod. The current machine that I am now doing the bulk of my troubleshooting from is a 780G based mobo with an X2 5200 and it is running Vista SP1.

    Vista sees the device as a USB mass storage controller and also sees a “Disk Drive” but that is it. I have reset the iPod till my fingers cramped up. I have also gone into diag mode to see if I can get any useful information. When I go into the I/O section and then look at the hard drive information, the diags report a lot of bad characters and also claims that there is 96 GB of storage on the drive. At that point, the iPod locks up and then I have to reset it again.

    Any and all advice is welcome as this iPod was a freebee and I would love to get it going and not have to hunt down a different one that has a dead disk (I REALLY want to accomplish this hardware mod )

    Thanks,
    Jason.

89. 89 On February 16th, 2009, passionist » repairing ipod, part deux: said:

    [...] convert from HDD to Flash [...]

90. 90 On March 13th, 2009, Vladimir Campos said:

    Hi I installed iFlash with a 32GB Transcend CF Ultra Speed 133x and thought I can mount the iPod and copy files to it I’m having problems with iTunes.

    I restored the iPod and after the iPod “boot” it goes back to the iPod restore page and iTunes asks to restore the iPod again.

    If I put the iPod in disk mode I can finish the restore process sync content to it but when I disconnect it from the computer and boot it I get the “Use iTunes to Restore” page again on the iPod.

    PS.: My iPod is a 5.5 generation with a 30gb HD.

91. 91 On March 14th, 2009, Tarkan said:

    Have you bought this Transcend recently? It does look like since Feb 2009 Transcend have changed the internals of their cards resulting in the restore loop issue.

92. 92 On April 3rd, 2009, Jimmy said:

    I got my 5th Gen 30gb working with a Sandisk Ultra II 8gb, or so I thought. It restores correctly, and I can load music and listen to it. When I plug it back into the computer, Windows (Vista) asks me to format the drive, and itunes either asks to restore again or just does not recognize the ipod at all. Has anybody else had this issue? I’m going to buy a new card to see if that is the problem.

93. 93 On April 9th, 2009, Tuna said:

    Hello, I live in Vietnam, how to buy the card MKII???

94. 94 On May 28th, 2009, Joseph said:

    Tarkan and all!

    A direction that could be researched that i’ve thought of, is using SDHC or SDXC (Secure Digital) cards with an adaptor to your (excellent) iFlash. This presents a number of issues, but some great advantages as well. These are the problems i’ve thought of so far: perhaps someone can take this up and work on it…

    Cons:
    1) The biggest issue, vanilla SD cards do not use ATA formatting. However, this would be solvable. http://forum.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33564&p=210685 contains some interesting info various people have done for cameras. What would be needed would be a CF bay that would hold SD cards… and contain a chipset to convert the USB/SATA/SerialBus data from the SD card to a ATA/IDE type stream. Believe this is already available on the market… needs research.

    2) Secure Digital is currently working with 2 or 3 different formats… SD, SDHC, and the new SDXC, currently just being released. Would create some confusion… older cards use a different ID string length, could not be read.

    3) Access speed: This is both good and bad. While SDHC cards can be found that have comparable speeds, such as 100x or 133x, in general, SD cards do not exceed a transfer rate of a low Class 6 — around 50/60x. However, newer formats such as SDXC with speeds of up to 400x have been proposed and developed — this is about twice the speed of transfer to a Hard Drive, i believe.

    And others i may not have noticed. However, the advantages are quite noticable:

    1) Size:
    The current “Price per GB per Cubic inch” ratio is much lower than for CF for larger sizes. Pro Exemplum: The largest currently obtainable CF card, i believe, is a 100GB with a rather high price tag, and of course 32GB is still hovering around $80-$150. a 32GB SD, however, can be obtained for only $50 or so. Currently, the SDHC (Secure Digital High Capactiy) format is limited to 32GB. However, a 32GB SD card is much, much smaller than a CF card, and bays can be purchased that will hold (i believe) up to 4. Consider: 128GB of storage on a Solid State iPod… with a 30GB back cover! Secondly, SDXC, which just coming onto the market, offers a theoretical limit of no less than 2TB. an 8TB iPod!
    And of course, there’s Mini SD and Micro SD, both of which can be found in up to around 16GB i believe. Could provide an even larger amount of storage for the same space.

    2) Cost:
    As mentioned above, the cost of a SD card is much less than the per GB cost of a CF. Also, SD cards are somewhat easier to find than CF. (Wal-Mart even carries them in up to 4GB sizes on occasion)

    3) Durablity:
    While both CF and SD are SSD (solid state devices), SD has greater reliablity in cold or hot environments… this would be an advantage to anyone using an iPod in winter sports or the like.

    Seems to be a field that bears further investigation… perhaps this will be an inspiration for someone to look into it further. Again, thanks for your great adaptor Tarkan! i’m currently running a 5.5G with a 32GB Kingston (which is working excellently.. no restore loops yet), iVue, and internal Bluetooth. Now if only Apple would catch up… and decrypt their firmware… (:

95. 95 On June 27th, 2009, Scott said:

    Hi Tarkan,

    Has the iFlash been tested with any 64GB CF cards yet? I’ve recently purchased a 64GB Pretec card and have been trying to get it to work with my 5.5G iPod along with a Startech.com ZIF2CF adapter. It seems to be suffering from the restore loop problem. The Startech adapter worked ok with a Kingston Elite Pro 133X 4GB card. Do you think I might have better luck with your iFlash adapter with the Pretec 64GB card?

    Scott

96. 96 On July 3rd, 2009, Tarkan said:

    Sorry, not got a 64Gb card yet!! Do not see why they would not work.

97. 97 On July 11th, 2009, Tim said:

    Did the conversion to my 5th gen 30g ipod. After I close it up and plug into my computer itunes will not see the ipod. The screen has the sick ipod and the ipod support web site. What did I do wrong? How do I correct? I went back into the ipod and can not see anything that looks broken or out of place. Thanks.

98. 98 On August 3rd, 2009, Jonas said:

    Exactly the same problems as Tim wrote: “Did the conversion to my 5th gen 30g ipod. After I close it up and plug into my computer itunes will not see the ipod. The screen has the sick ipod and the ipod support web site. What did I do wrong? How do I correct? I went back into the ipod and can not see anything that looks broken or out of place. Thanks.”

    Sad ipod all the time. Neither Windows or iTunes recognize ipod. Cannot enter disk mode. Have tried to format CF but no success. Is there a way?

99. 99 On August 3rd, 2009, Tarkan said:

    It does sound like the connection is not good. Make sure the ribbon is fully inserted in to the ZIF connector – it goes in quite a bit around 1.5mm.

100. 100 On August 13th, 2009, Jonas said:

     Hey,

     Unfortunatley doesn´t work with my IPOD 5th. I will try to describe my problem:
     I have fitted a Kingston 16 gb 133 in the adapter, I also replaced the battery since the old was dead. I get the sad ipod when turning on ipod and sometimes I get the “wait very low battery” message. Sometimes I get the “connect to computer to restore” message. I am able to put the ipod in disk mode and by doing that I have charged the battery so I know it is fully charged. So after I have charged the Ipod for several hours in disk mode I connect it to my computer. The computer signals detected USB device and it pops up in the device manager as USB mass storage and in removable device list as Ipod. However windows never assigns a letter and after 30 secs or so the ipod restarts and windows signals disconnected USB device, just when it does windows pops up a unknown drive icon in my computer an when I look at properties it says empty with RAW or unknown file system. When I refresh the drive is there no more and the ipod, after it have restarted show the sad ipod and then after that the “Please Wait Very Low Battery”

     I cannot get into ipods diagnostic mode.

     It is like the battery still is not charged even if it says so (I have changed the battery) or the CF have the wrong format (I did format it with HP format as FAT32). Is ther a way to charge the battery outside the IPOD or a possibility to measure the battery.

     Any help would be appreciated, I´m very close to giving up

101. 101 On August 21st, 2009, » No-Brand 4GB-CF 4GB CompactFlash? Memory Card – shopping-reviews.net said:

     [...] Launched : iFlash Ipod Compact Flash Adapter (mk II) » Tarkan … [...]

102. 102 On September 12th, 2009, Sean said:

     Thanks Tarkan for this Device! It is very specific to the IPOD and works flawlessly. You cannot lose if you buy this cause if it does not work you can get a refund within 7 days. The only problem with that is you better get it to work cause you wont have much time to troubleshoot anything. I got home from SAN FRANCISCO on a business trip and popped in the adapter. First off I had the 6th gen 160 gig IPOD originally and tookt he old drive out and tossed it. It was making the click of death sound. I knew it was time for a change. I have seen many devices on the internet being sold in Taiwan and they are so called Zif to CF adapters and let me tell you they do not work. So if you are thinking about doing this project real cheap it’s going to cost you nearly 100 bucks if you get the 32 Gig CF memory. My IPOD worked with this card Kingston Elite Pro 133x 32Gb formatted at FAT 32 Before the USB cable was connected. As son as I powered on the device it stated to connect the IPOD then to restore it. It worked like a charm! Thank you!

103. 103 On September 13th, 2009, Tarkan said:

     Glad it worked for you – I suppose the cheap adaptor you got was not working in the ipod.

104. 104 On September 24th, 2009, Clinton said:

     I’ve had my iFlash for about 4 or 5 months now and it’s been working perfectly. But I just upgraded to itunes 9.01 and now itunes doesn’t recognize my ipod. When I plug it into my computer, the finder mounts it then starts itunes but then it doesn’t show up itunes sidebar. Any ideas?
     Thanx in advance

105. 105 On September 24th, 2009, Tarkan said:

     I think it is a problem with iTunes 9 – my test CF based 5g is not seen nor is my normal 30gb 5g – both show up in windows my computer but itunes does not see either.

106. 106 On September 26th, 2009, Milo said:

     how much would shipping be to the united states? california to be exact

107. 107 On September 26th, 2009, Milo said:

     for the adaptor, sorry.

108. 108 On September 26th, 2009, Tarkan said:

     Hi,

     Shipping is £2.50 for USA – more details on my store page – button can be found along the top bar.

109. 109 On October 6th, 2009, Mike said:

     Hey Clinton,

     I’m having exactly the same problem with iTunes 9. It won’t recognize my iPod with the iFlash. iTunes 8.2.1 and below work perfectly.

     I suspect this has to do with Apple’s dispute with Palm over syncing the Pre. Basically, Palm has made their device spoof an iPod Video (5th generation) USB device ID to trick iTunes into syncing with it just like it was a real iPod. That’s not really cool, but Apple are being jerks about it too. The last few updates of iTunes have included code to specifically disable this spoofing by the Palm Pre.

     I’ll bet iTunes 9 either detects the iFlash itself, or determines that the flash drive inside the iPod is a nonstandard size drive for that model, and assumes it must be a Palm Pre. Pretty crappy move by Apple if you ask me. I’m about to go file a bug report at bugreport.apple.com, stressing that I own a genuine Apple iPod with an alternative storage device inside, and they shouldn’t be deliberately preventing me from syncing!

     The good news is that you can still get iTunes 8.2.1 (for now, at least – get it while you can!):

     http://support.apple.com/kb/DL928 or
     http://support.apple.com/downloads/iTunes_8_2_1

     Is everyone else with an iFlash having the same problem with iTunes 9?

110. 110 On October 6th, 2009, Tarkan said:

     Ok, I have managed to spend some time on this.

     I tested my test iFlash’d iPods and Mike you are right it is looking like iTunes is trying to make sure the iPod you use is really an iPod.

     What I discovered is that iTunes is checking the storage size – so when I tested with a 4Gb CF iTunes did not show the iPod. I swapped in a 32Gb CF and iTunes showed the iPod straight away.

     iTunes is probably checking to see if the storage space is at least what the original iPod is meant to have, which will be very hard for Palm to fake.

     Tarkan

111. 111 On October 9th, 2009, nuxx.net blog » Tarkan Akdam’s iFlash iPod Compact Flash Adapter (mk II) said:

     [...] to music. I’d recently come across a nice little PCB made by Tarkan Akdam called the iFlash iPod Compact Flash Adapter (mk II) which allows one to replace the 1.8″ hard drive in their iPod with a CompactFlash [...]

112. 112 On October 14th, 2009, CF reader? - Zune Boards said:

     [...] [...]

113. 113 On October 17th, 2009, Gary said:

     I just received and installed the iFlash. iPod works great with all the menus. But iTunes 9 does not recognize the iPod. I have a Kingston 16GB Elite Pro CF card. Is iTunes 8.2.1 the only answer?

114. 114 On October 23rd, 2009, Clinton said:

     Hey all. Thanks for the help. to compound my problem my computer crashed, so I had to completely start over from scratch. Now not only did I lose a lot of music (not all being that I do back up… sometimes) so now I need to figure out a way to get all the music that I have on my iflashed ipod off AND then add new stuff… so any recommended ipod manager apps for that.. for macos??

115. 115 On October 29th, 2009, Dickincorp said:

     I was wondering if the adapter work with 133x and/or 233x cards I would be VERY interested to know if the 233x cards would work. (speaking in relative terms to the 5g/5.5g ipods) Are these cards even supported by the ipods or the adapter.

116. 116 On November 1st, 2009, Wim37u said:

     I also have to use iTunes 8, iTunes 9 is not working with my iPod Video with a 4GB CompactFlash Card. Thanks Palm and Apple.

117. 117 On November 2nd, 2009, Dickincorp said:

     Regarding Itunes 8, you can download the old version for X86 or X64 XP all the way to windows7 here.
     http://www.oldapps.com/itunes.php

118. 118 On November 9th, 2009, Completely unnecessary proposed original iPod first gen 64GB mod... - MacTalk Forums said:

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119. 119 On December 3rd, 2009, mike said:

     I am desperate – I am looking for sd-cf1 adapters – can you help? I found several sites-all unavailable

120. 120 On January 7th, 2010, Greg said:

     I got a 16 gb Kingston, the one from the supported list but when I plug it in my pc makes the noise where it sounds like it recognizes it and it showes in device manager as Apple device but itunes still doesnt see it. Any thoughts?

121. 121 On January 13th, 2010, elektrolad said:

     Wondered if I could use a cf card adapter with a 32gb sd flash card? Any thoughts?
     32 and 64gb cf cards are still expensive and I could buy a new ipod for the cost of the mods. I have a 5th gen video ipod.

     cheers

122. 122 On March 17th, 2010, edcal said:

     Any update on the itunes thing?
     I have a 5th gen 30g that’s full, so 64g looks like what I need.

     And on that…64g cards are sooo expensive. Do the ipod and adaptor support IDE master/slave so I can use 2 32g cards as 2 drives? I can rip the plastic off to make them thinner, not an issue.

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