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.

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.

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

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……

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

This is on a Mac with iTunes 8.0.1

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.

Thanks!

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

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.

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!

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.

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.