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Title: Hitachi 6gb Cf -- Anybody Using It With The Z ?
Post by: brice.beard on February 10, 2006, 06:30:28 am
Bought an Hitachi 6GB CF taken out of an Ipod and reformated it as FAT32.
The drive works fine on XP and OSX but when I try to put it into
my C3100 running cacko, it doesn't mount.
Anybody with experience of that ?
Title: Hitachi 6gb Cf -- Anybody Using It With The Z ?
Post by: w14 on February 10, 2006, 07:42:24 am
Scott Yelich has one working:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...5491&hl=hitachi (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15491&hl=hitachi)

I can't remember which ROM/distro he uses. You could try sending him a PM.

Mike.
Title: Hitachi 6gb Cf -- Anybody Using It With The Z ?
Post by: jomo on February 12, 2006, 10:56:39 am
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Bought an Hitachi 6GB CF taken out of an Ipod and reformated it as FAT32.
The drive works fine on XP and OSX but when I try to put it into
my C3100 running cacko, it doesn't mount.
Anybody with experience of that ?
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I have some bad news for you, Brice.  Hitachi usually (but not always) cripples iPod microdrives to prevent you from doing that.  They were selling them basically at or just above cost to Apple and other MP-3 player manufacturers and people would take them out and throw the player away or stick a CF card in it because it was cheaper than buying the micro in the store.  As a result, the firmware was recoded to prevent this.  The same is true of Seagate.  No-one's really found a way around this, unfortunately.  I'd try and get my money back if I were you.
Title: Hitachi 6gb Cf -- Anybody Using It With The Z ?
Post by: brice.beard on February 12, 2006, 05:13:36 pm
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Bought an Hitachi 6GB CF taken out of an Ipod and reformated it as FAT32.
The drive works fine on XP and OSX but when I try to put it into
my C3100 running cacko, it doesn't mount.
Anybody with experience of that ?
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I have some bad news for you, Brice.  Hitachi usually (but not always) cripples iPod microdrives to prevent you from doing that.  They were selling them basically at or just above cost to Apple and other MP-3 player manufacturers and people would take them out and throw the player away or stick a CF card in it because it was cheaper than buying the micro in the store.  As a result, the firmware was recoded to prevent this.  The same is true of Seagate.  No-one's really found a way around this, unfortunately.  I'd try and get my money back if I were you.
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Thanks, I'm trying to get my money back now  I'll have to wait a bit now to get one at a reasonable price ( <100£ )