From: Dominik Riebeling <dominik.riebeling_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 08:32:57 +0200

On 5/22/07, Menachem Shapiro <menachem.shapiro_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> From what I understood from the forums, Apple's FAT32 support in the
> 80GB is done differently than the older/smaller ipods (larger logical
> sector size). That's why the 30GB 5.5G ipod worked, but the 80GB
> didn't. I want to know if the fix that got the 80GB to work is
> specifically for the 80GB hard drive, or will it work for the 100GB
> hard drive as well.

Please read the summary in the wiki
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodEightyGB

How should anyone tell if this problem will be present with other
drives without knowing those drives? As I already said, there are
modified players around that run with 80GB disks since the beginning,
without the need for any fix. Which makes it absolutely clear: this
fix is _not_ related to the _size_ of the disk but to the way the disk
(and controller) work. The sector size of the FAT is something
different, the Ipod 5.5G 30GB also uses a different sector size.


 - Dominik
Received on 2007-05-22