FS#13213 : Patch 2466 - 'Try mounting as "superfloppy" first' breaks iPods 5G, 4G, nano 1G

Status Closed
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Task Type Bugs
Category Applications
Assigned To No-one
Operating System iPod 5G
Severity Critical
Priority Very Low
Reported Version Daily build (which?)
Due in Version Undecided
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Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by AndyP - 2020-07-10
Last edited by speachy - 2020-07-11

FS#13213 - Patch 2466 - 'Try mounting as "superfloppy" first' breaks iPods 5G, 4G, nano 1G

Current git build fails to run on 4G, 4G Mini, 5G and Nano 1G ipods.

Rockbox boots but reports an error as ‘installation incomplete’ and no theme is loaded, no database is found and if you go into ‘Files’, no files are found and you cannot write any data to disk (dump identify_info).

Removing this patch and rebuilding allows the above iPods to boot and function normally.

6G Classic and 2G Nano’s do not appear to be affected.

Mini2G-8GB has a CF card fitted
Mini2G-16GBuSD has a uSD card fitted in an uSD-SD adapter in a SD-CF adapter.
All others are stock.

Color4G-20GB.zip (1.05 MiB)

Grey4G-20GB.zip (1.04 MiB)

Mini1G-4GB.zip (1.25 MiB)

Mini2G-6GB.zip (1.26 MiB)

Mini2G-8GB.zip (1.26 MiB)

Mini2G-16GBuSD.zip (1.2 MiB)

Nano1G-4GB.zip (1.07 MiB)

Video5G-80G.zip (1.36 MiB)

Closed by speachy
2020-07-11 23:14
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Warning: Undefined array key "typography" in /home/rockbox/flyspray/plugins/dokuwiki/inc/parserutils.php on line 371 Warning: Undefined array key "camelcase" in /home/rockbox/flyspray/plugins/dokuwiki/inc/parserutils.php on line 407

Committed as 7249fab

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speachy commented on 2020-07-10 22:16

Can you dump the first few KB of the drive (via disk mode) so we can see what's going on?

(I have a theory.. it might be bunnies..)

speachy commented on 2020-07-10 22:18

also, what's the content of settings/debug/partition info

speachy commented on 2020-07-10 22:24

Finally, any dumps need full hw details – exact model, storage particulars (for the non-nano unit anyway)

FWIW I've using git HEAD with a mini2g with no issues.

speachy commented on 2020-07-11 15:08

Thanks for the dumps. It looks like the problem has to do with the partition layout, namely the presence of multiple partitions.

(I think the underlying root cause is the removal of the partition type id check rather than mount order issues)

AndyP commented on 2020-07-11 20:19

Just done the following with a 4G Color,
Write 0's to first 2GB.
Connect to PC and restore with iTunes.
iPod boots and plays OK
Use Rockbox Utility V1.4.1 to install Rockbox.
Reboot.
Rockbox starts, reports 'No .rockbox directory' and 'installation incomplete'.
Select 'File', no files found. No music available.
Reboot into Apple OS.
iPod plays OK. Rockbox doesn't.