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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: A 60GB 4G/Color iPod!!!Re: A 60GB 4G/Color iPod!!!
From: Robert Anderson <riznob_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:40:30 -0700 On 10/4/06, Mark <discardedswimwear_at_googlemail.com> wrote: > > Some of you might have read my previous email on the problems I was having > installing Rockbox on a 5G Video iPod. > A symptom of the problem was the bootpartition file read by ipodpatcher > was > only 40MB, when it should have been 112MB for a 5G Video iPod. > And it definitely was a 5G iPod because it had a 60GB hard drive, and I > bought it from the Apple store. > Well, I said "definitely", and I'm one of those people who gets suspicious > when I hear other folks saying words like that... so I thought I'd > investigate further. > One of the reasons for my suspicion was that the iPod in question was > actually a refurbished iPod bought from the Apple store as a trade-in for > a > damaged 5G iPod. I was told that it was a 5G iPod though, but it seemed > like ipodpatcher was telling me something else. > > To cut to the chase, I've installed the Rockbox boot loader and firmware > for > the 4G/Color iPod, simply based on the fact that the size of the > bootpartition from ipodpatcher matched this model. > And guess what ! > Rockbox works now! > > So, it appears that I have an Apple-sourced 60GB 4G/Color iPod! > > Anyway, that's good news for me, but I wonder if the installation WIKI > and/or manuals ought to at least mention the fact that hard drive size is > *not* necessarily the correct way to determine the correct iPod model. > Given that my assumption was based on the output from the ipodpatcher, > might > it be possible to modify ipodpatcher to display the "real" correct iPod > model, based on bootpartition size and probably some other data? I know > this might seem like a fairly rare situation, but with the ever increasing > number of iPod models, I reckon this might be a problem that might > increase > as Apple tries to offload 'old' refurbished 5G models. > > Mark > > > Dude, that's a bummer. I would return it to Apple, or at least ask for a real 5G ipod to replace it. -- Rob Anderson riznob_at_gmail.comReceived on 2006-10-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |