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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: What happened to the SDK for Dadio? (hipzip hacking anyone?)What happened to the SDK for Dadio? (hipzip hacking anyone?)
From: stuart <stuart_at_xnet.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:49:32 -0500 Hi... First off, thanks for the web site resource - don't know where I would have gotten the specifications for the ISD200 ATA/USB chip otherwise. Off to some fun stuff... When I realized the HipZip used the same ATA/USB controller as the RockBox I started wondering if the HipZip (a "defunked" mp3 player - mostly because it had limited removable storage **) could control large compact flash cards or even a hard drive. From inspection of the circuit... it looks like it could. But there is always the problem that the embedded firmware (Dadio, a Linux derivative I believe) is hard coded at 40MBytes. So I am looking, after finding some internet chatter about it, for the Dadio SDK. So far it looks like it was talked about around March of 2000 but never released. The Dadio / Linux firmware was supposed to be used on the HipZip and the I-Jam mp3 players. I don't know if either of these are still on the market. One encouraging note, the I-Jam players appear to use compact flash cards! ...thanks **HipZip players used a small (about a inch wide) 40MByte removable disk. At $10 each, it wasn't long until flash cards passed them up in terms of Bytes per dollars. Add to that, I have personally destroyed at least 3 disks of my own (i.e. Don't stare at them to long or they will fall apart). _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-06-10 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |