Comments on: Launched : iFlash Ipod Compact Flash Adapter (mk II)

By: edcal

edcal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:02:30 +0000

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.

By: elektrolad

elektrolad — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:02:23 +0000

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

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:26:29 +0000

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?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:04:48 +0000

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

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By: Dickincorp

Dickincorp — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:50:21 +0000

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

By: Wim37u

Wim37u — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:39:04 +0000

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.

By: Dickincorp

Dickincorp — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:23:49 +0000

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.

By: Clinton

Clinton — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:51 +0000

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??

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:36:39 +0000

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?

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:16:45 +0000

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By: Tarkan

Tarkan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:11:32 +0000

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

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:59:49 +0000

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?

By: Tarkan

Tarkan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:31:46 +0000

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