Long time no hear!!

Thanks for the heads up – so all it was a simple change to the reset line. So no more un-official patching…..:)

I just discovered a proposed patch in Rockbox’s Flyspray bug/patch tracker that fixes the rockbox issues with the iPod Video and CF cards. Apparently, Rockbox is reseting the IDE device but not waiting long enough before querying it for a status. I just tested the patch on the latest SVN and it works fine for me. Someone commenting on the patch said they’re going to push it to SVN soon. You can find it here:

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9749

BTW, I discovered my previous problem with the “codec failure” was related to the fact that I renamed my previous rockbox install from .rockbox to .rockbox.old. Apparently, having both a “.rockbox” and a “.rockbox.old” folder in the root of the drive with two different builds of rockbox really confuses it. It appears it was booting up with the /.rockbox.old/rockbox.ipod image, but it was trying to use the codecs from the newer version of Rockbox installed in “/.rockbox”. I’m using iPodLinux’s Loader2 bootloader, and I strongly suspect that it is to blame.

Jared

I also noticed that I’m using todays official build not the one linked above and all good so far – no codec issues, but all my files are flac’s so not tested many.

I had the same problem as you, until I tried the bootloader, found at

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9369

Try it and see if it works for you.

Not seen the codec failure issue, what version number you running? , interesting that you did not need to patch – the version I have posted above does not run on my 32gb Adata hence the patch…

I’ll have a look over the svn…..

I’ve got a strange issue here with the new build. Whenever I’m try to play any files, I’m getting “codec failure.” Also, it’s worth noting, the official build from rockbox.org now boots on my iFlash’d 30GB video, though it also has the “codec failure” problem.

Any thoughts?

Jared

Great timing on the release of the patched 3.0 – same day my 32gb Transcend 133x card arrived! I have just got round to installing both and while the default OS is fine, the rockbox bootloader errors with

ipod bootloader v2.0
ipod version 0xFFFFFFFF
ATA: -80
No partition found

And asks me to reboot into disk mode to repair. Is this an iflash problem, to do with your rockbox build or is the bootloader just too old for rockbox v3? Back to the hard drive with v2 for me for now, but hopefully someone will know where the problem lies

Thanks

I have updated the patched version to the latest Rockbox to fix issues with the slower CF cards.

Also, I wanted to thank you for developing this converter. It’s been running great with the stock firmware for some time. I use it on average of 6 hours a day.

Have you had Rockbox working before? and if so was it a patched version or off the shelf version? and what card are you running.

I will try and download the latest source and compile a patched version (assuming nothing else has been broken)…..

The new Sandisk Extreme didn’t work just like you’d predicted – it doesn’t load either the Apple or Rockbox firmware. Did you get a chance to try any new workarounds?