From: [IDC]Dragon <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:50:01 +0100 (MET)

> [IDC]Dragon wrote:
>
> >A very special application would be a home HD player from a scrapped
> Archos,
> >with 2 disk drives, or a Compact Flash slot. This would require a little
> >addition to the ATA driver, treating the drive# parameter for a
> master/slave
> >decision. Right now only the MMC driver supports 2 drives.
> >
> Now this, I'm interested in. I've been thinking about doing something
> similar for parties, and so-on - but ive never really had the time to do
> anything about it. My main question is - would it be possible for an
> altered jukebox (studio / 6000 / recorder) to beable to have 2 drives,
> where a total disk capacity exceeds 100GB (which afaik is the jukebox
> limit)? Or is it a limitation on the hardware? I've not had a chance to
> delve very deeply into the source before, so I apologise if this is an
> obvious answer..

The USB bridge chip is limited to LBA adressing, so you can't go past 137 GB
on the drive, from that end.
Rockbox theoretically could do BigLBA addressing and not be affected. Just
fantasizing: If you still want to go with this old hardware, you could atm
build a maximum system with with two 500 GB disks. If you don't want to swap
the disks out for refilling, one of them would have a <137 GB "interface
partition" in the lower part. You can then fill this partition, and let the
Rockbox Norton Commander plugin (tm) move the content to the other
partitions. Hey, this would be fun to wait for!

Jörg

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Received on 2005-01-06