Rockbox for iPOD Video 5th 5.5th mSATA SSD MOD

[DR650SE]

Hey guys!

I just wanted you to know that everything worked out fine.
Thanks for your support!

Greetings!

 

What Setup are you running? What are your impressions? Have you had any problems? Glad your got it completed

 

[gval13]

Hi
 
I have modded my iPod video 60Gb with a 480 SSD (Crucial) and an msata to zif adapter. The iPod works quite well and transfer time is not too bad although I think is slower than USB 2.0. However, I am facing the problem that after 1-2 hours of use (although the iPod seems fully charged) the iPod switch off automatically and the battery indicator is in deep red. I have not Rockboxed it (as a matter of fact I am not sure I can with this SSD size). I have also replaced the battery recently with a brand new one. Any suggestions?
 
Thanks! 

 

[cmarti]

  Hi
 
I have modded my iPod video 60Gb with a 480 SSD (Crucial) and an msata to zif adapter. The iPod works quite well and transfer time is not too bad although I think is slower than USB 2.0. However, I am facing the problem that after 1-2 hours of use (although the iPod seems fully charged) the iPod switch off automatically and the battery indicator is in deep red. I have not Rockboxed it (as a matter of fact I am not sure I can with this SSD size). I have also replaced the battery recently with a brand new one. Any suggestions?
 
Thanks! 

That are the symptoms of a weak battery. It may work good with a HD or CF card but it is not keeping up with the mSATA power demand.

 

[gval13]

Is it because the 480 SSD msata is "too big" or this problem would apply to any SSD of any size? My understanding from reading various forums is that people have been quite successful with sizes of 240 and below.
 
Thanks

 

[starcraft2]

Can anyone recommed an amp for this ipod?

 

[davidcotton]

  Is it because the 480 SSD msata is "too big" or this problem would apply to any SSD of any size? My understanding from reading various forums is that people have been quite successful with sizes of 240 and below.
 
Thanks

According to the main modding thread Msata is quite power hungry.  Whilst it is fine if you are just playing back as soon as you do any sort of folder browsing (say to change albums or songs or whatever) then it takes a massive hit.  If you do a search in the main modding thread there are recommendations for batteries in their with the most popular one being the 2000 mah one from china.  Otherwise the cf mod still seems to be the way to go but at the expense of storage space.

 

[flacworrrrab]

Hi all, I did a msata ssd mod 480gb crucial on a 7g ipod classic with the green adapter,following the guide from beyondwind, got it all working but I have a problem I cannot figure out. Write speed to the ipod via usb on win7 is very slow,seems like it has a initial burst 9-12mb/s then decreases to a stable aprox 200-300kbps,its hardly usable this way. Read speed from the ipod back to pc is good a stable 9mbps. I have read about connecting the msata directly to the pc and copying the music that way, but everytime I need to put music on it? take it apart and go through all that? I already tried formatting the drive in win fat32 with different cluster size, same result.
 
can anyone recommend a adapter you are using for msata to usb

 

[flacworrrrab]

  Hi all, I did a msata ssd mod 480gb crucial on a 7g ipod classic with the green adapter,following the guide from beyondwind, got it all working but I have a problem I cannot figure out. Write speed to the ipod via usb on win7 is very slow,seems like it has a initial burst 9-12mb/s then decreases to a stable aprox 200-300kbps,its hardly usable this way. Read speed from the ipod back to pc is good a stable 9mbps. I have read about connecting the msata directly to the pc and copying the music that way, but everytime I need to put music on it? take it apart and go through all that? I already tried formatting the drive in win fat32 with different cluster size, same result.
 
can anyone recommend a adapter you are using for msata to usb

ipod via usb
transferring 1.70gb
103KB/s
2 hours and 30 min

 

[cmarti]

  Hi all, I did a msata ssd mod 480gb crucial on a 7g ipod classic with the green adapter,following the guide from beyondwind, got it all working but I have a problem I cannot figure out. Write speed to the ipod via usb on win7 is very slow,seems like it has a initial burst 9-12mb/s then decreases to a stable aprox 200-300kbps,its hardly usable this way. Read speed from the ipod back to pc is good a stable 9mbps. I have read about connecting the msata directly to the pc and copying the music that way, but everytime I need to put music on it? take it apart and go through all that? I already tried formatting the drive in win fat32 with different cluster size, same result.
 
can anyone recommend a adapter you are using for msata to usb

Try loading the files from the official Apple firmware instead of RockBox, RockBox USB handler is inefficient. 

 

[flacworrrrab]

  Try loading the files from the official Apple firmware instead of RockBox, RockBox USB handler is inefficient. 

thanks for the help cmarti, however most of my collection is flac so official fw is a no go,do you think buying tarkan adapter would solve the problem?I suspect the cheap adapter as copying From the ipod speeds are fine, but transfering To it they are horrible.

 

[cmarti]

thanks for the help cmarti, however most of my collection is flac so official fw is a no go,do you think buying tarkan adapter would solve the problem?I suspect the cheap adapter as copying From the ipod speeds are fine, but transfering To it they are horrible.

No, no, no.


I mean file transfer the files, like you would do from RockBox but do it from the Apple firmware.

Edit. Nevermind, yours is a 7th gen iPod.

 

[cmarti]

Double post. Sorry

 

[Sea Monkey]

This is so frustrating.  I received my 840EVO 1TB today.  I figured I just needed enough of a charge to run the restore and get Rockbox on there.  I didn't wait long enough for it to charge and it died while running the restore process from iTunes.  Now I get a sad face and can't get it to go back into disk mode at all. I went and bought an msata to USB 3.0 adapter in the hopes that initializing the drive in Windows and writing a new MBR might reset it.  Sad face.  Tried creating a new exFat partition to see if that would do the trick.  Sad face.  I don't know what to do now.
 
*edit*
This is a 5.5gen board from an 80GB, I believe, and I'm using the green msata to zif adapter.
 
Attempting "format n: /FS:fat32 /A:2048" in the hopes that I can get it back into disk mode from there.

 

[cmarti]

This is so frustrating.  I received my 840EVO 1TB today.  I figured I just needed enough of a charge to run the restore and get Rockbox on there.  I didn't wait long enough for it to charge and it died while running the restore process from iTunes.  Now I get a sad face and can't get it to go back into disk mode at all. I went and bought an msata to USB 3.0 adapter in the hopes that initializing the drive in Windows and writing a new MBR might reset it.  Sad face.  Tried creating a new exFat partition to see if that would do the trick.  Sad face.  I don't know what to do now.

*edit*
This is a 5.5gen board from an 80GB, I believe.

Attempting "format n: /FS:fat32 /A:2048" in the hopes that I can get it back into disk mode from there.

I haven't done it but some users are fomatting the mSATA card out of a SATA port or mSATA port on a computer.

For formatting the card of a SATA port you need one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Micro-SATA-Cables-mSATA-Adapter/dp/B004YKJ5TE

 

[Sea Monkey]

I haven't done it but some users are fomatting the mSATA card out of a SATA port or mSATA port on a computer.

For formatting the card of a SATA port you need one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Micro-SATA-Cables-mSATA-Adapter/dp/B004YKJ5TE

How would this be any different than formatting via msata to USB?