ipod classic audio quality unbearably bad - Page 4

Not exactly, really. There are microdrive controllers with their CF support disabled, so one should use CF that supports MBR partitioning with these: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HardDriveReplacement#Rockbox_targets_using_1_Microdri , http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/MiniCF

And such CFs are quite expensive, rare and of small capacity; however, these, in theory, could be used in any HDD-based player with an appropriate mechanical adapter.

I'll have to try the firmware recovery tool. I have a feeling that I have tried it before and I couldn't get it to work, which resulted in me picking up my iPod (Man, I've had the iPod for a while now. It IS dependable!).

We shall see how it goes though. " class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://files.head-fi.org/images/smilies//smily_headphones1.gif" title="" width="" />

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Originally Posted by penartur 

 

Not exactly, really. There are microdrive controllers with their CF support disabled, so one should use CF that supports MBR partitioning with these: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HardDriveReplacement#Rockbox_targets_using_1_Microdri , http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/MiniCF

And such CFs are quite expensive, rare and of small capacity; however, these, in theory, could be used in any HDD-based player with an appropriate mechanical adapter.

Do you mean the so called "TrueIDE" mode? I have read about that, and that SanDisk Extreme (and perhaps Ultra) is a CF card that can do this. Other cards, while the manufacturer claiming that they can do trueIDE, in fact do not. It is bad that DAP manufacturers limits the hardware like this with CF support disabled...

I had a discussion about the JVC XA-HD500 and CF cards in this thread. In the end the OP decided to not go ahead with the mod and instead sell the JVC, despite loving the sound. The 6GB just wasn't enough... It is this JVC that is for sale here on Head-fi.

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Originally Posted by Danneq 

 

Do you mean the so called "TrueIDE" mode? I have read about that, and that SanDisk Extreme (and perhaps Ultra) is a CF card that can do this. Other cards, while the manufacturer claiming that they can do trueIDE, in fact do not. It is bad that DAP manufacturers limits the hardware like this with CF support disabled...

It is not really about disabling some feature, it is about not implementing the feature.

Microdrives are, on a logical level, just normal HDDs, with MBR (=master boot record), partitions etc. Apple could just modify their "big ipod" firmware drivers a bit in order to get it running on ipod mini (just because ipod mini is based on a different hardware).

On the other side, CFs are on a logical level something like floppy disk, without any MBR or partitioning. So running existing firmware from CF requires writing a new bootloader, maybe logical disk manager etc. It is perfectly reasonable that apple didn't wasted their resources to implement CF support to make life of ipod upgraders easier.