Thread: H320 CF-MOD with Kingston 32GB CF card, Working!

Hi all,
I have just done my first CF MOD & it works 100%!
I bought a KIngston 32GB CF card from ebuyer.com for £49.99 & a 1.8" IDE to CF card converter from eBay for £4.99
The CF converter has the jumper on & I haven't removed it, it's on Master, not slave.
I have added a picture of the CF MOD to this post.
I received the CF card converter last week & received the Kingston 32GB CFcard on Friday just gone, then plugged the CF card into my built in card reader on my pc then copied Rockbox & all my music to the card & made sure the card was in FAT32 format, which it already was!
I then plugged the CF card into the converter & the converter into my H320 & it worked first time in Rockbox.
I then tried to see if it worked on the iRiver firmware & it does!
The iRiver firmware I used it on is: 1.29K
I am in the process of testing the battery life & & will add to this post by the end of this week the battery run times.
I will also give all the info about what settings Rockbox are in to run the test.
I now own a H332! EXCELLENT!
So how many other people on here has done this mod?
Regards Tom.

Congratulation ;)

tigertom2003uk
Can you be please more precise with the description under "copied Rockbox to the card" .
What did you exactly copy to the card under Rockbox ? Bootloader ? Firmware ?
Thank mate

Hi snapper007,
Sorry not to add that in the first place.
I have installed the bootloader already, so all I did is copy the folder .rockbox from the HDD to the CF card.
It's like how I always do when I get another 300 series working: first upgrade the firmware to: 1.29k then, do it again with the patched firmware but with the Rockbox bootloader, then I just copy the folder saved on my pc called .rockbox then I copy it to the device HDD then I have Rockbox on the device.
So all I did was copy the Rockbox firmware to the CF card.
If anyone wants the 1.29k firmware or the modified 1.29k firmware with the Rockbox bootloader then please PM me & I will send it by attachment by email.
Regards Tom.

Nifty job! Good work, my friend!

Hi Eric,
Thanks for that! I have been wanting to do this mod for ages but the CF cards were to much then but now they are not!
Just to let anyone on know that I will be selling this device with this mod on eBay next year! as I want to give this mod a full test, on Rockbox of course :¬)
I will post the battery times tomorrow if I get time!
Regards Tom.

Hi Catball,
It depends how much GB you need, if you want to use it while jogging then it's great! no HDD to damaged plus longer battery time!
I will do it some day with my own H380 when the 100GB CF cards come out & are cheap!
Regards Tom.

Hi all,
Right now the information about Rockbox & running times, on the CF-MOD I done!
Rockbox ver: r17564-080518
Rockbox settings while I did the battery run time test:
Brightness on full / 15
Theme running on test: DGT 1.4
EQ settings: 50Hz band gain: 4.0db, 200Hz band gain: -10.0db, 800Hz band gain: -13.5db, 4000Hz band gain: -11.0db, 12000Hz band gain: -6.0db
Volume level: -15db
Using Sony MDR-E818LP earphones.
Back light on all the time.
Battery time: 15 hours & 5 minutes
Playing only MP3 format in one folder, but not on repeat.
Hope this is all the information that anyone would need to know on this mod for a battery test.
Regards Tom.

"first upgrade the firmware to: 1.29k then, do it again with the patched firmware but with the Rockbox bootloader" Completely lost! Would you please give me details instructions on how to install a 32GB TopRam CF card on my H320. What do I exactly copy from my HDD to the CF? I'm running the latest version of Rockbox 3.6. I upgraded the firmware to 1.29K and get the H320.exe from the Rockbox.org. I placed everything in the CF card but I'm still getting the ATA error: -11 no matter what I do. I'm ready to set everything on fire! It's so frustrating! Please help me. The Cf is formated to FAT32, the adapter is OK so I think it has something to do with the bootloader. Please help!!!