Rockbox: Clip Zip

[Smiff]

Originally Posted by Steff8000

Not gonna watch Saving Private Ryan on it But I thought it would be fun to test it out.

but you might watch Saving Ryan's Privates on it, amiright?

i'm getting my builds mixed up, 31340 doesn't seem to have USB support, 31347 does but is it any better than 31323?

[CrowdAds]

[Marvin the Martian]

Just plugged in my original Zip for a charge and content add.....still with r31320, once again it was recognized on the first try. Adding 1.19GB went well....most of the time averaging over 5MB/sec. With the OF, I remember it always being almost exactly 4MB/sec.

[funman]

Thanks people for testing USB ..

I hope we can fix the last problems shortly.

It seems that in the middle of all the changes I made there were some strong/solid revisions for USB so it'd be nice to identify them so I can see what exactly broke them in the following changes.

Saratoga identified such a revision (31242) and I made a change (31372) according to this.

A few plugs/unplugs work flawlessly but I'm not going to do that 100 times ... So I hope you guys will test the latest revs and report your experience.

A 0-bug-ever USB mode is finally approaching. And after that I'll probably have to break USB again so the ipod nano2g and the Sansa AMSv2 use the same code (because they both have different code for a very very similar chipset).

[TexasRockbox]

Thank you very much for your hard work.

There has been a flurry of activity on Rockbox lately.

[Smiff]

yes! USB seems to work in 31372. could be just in time for xmas!?
i think i love you funman...
even more amazing, player doesn't hang when unplugging!

transferred files using Nautilus and Rhythmbox ok.


edit: ah got a crash :/
when connecting

Data Abort at 00800590
FSR 0x8
(domain 0,fault address 0xFA000

after rebooting
i see only "RockBox SD card slot" (i have no SD card in the player)

no main memory. seems to have changed the config..
and after some more reboots (some hangs and force shutdowns) it's working again, no config reset needed.
edit: i misread the setting "hide internal drive" sorry, this might be my fault, but the crash was real.

btw two PCs, one Mint11 64bit, one Ubuntu 10.10 32bit

I think this is usable just not entirely stable. thanks it's awesome not having to reboot into OF to transfer music..

[WalkGood]

Originally Posted by funman

... I made a change (31372) according to this.

A few plugs/unplugs work flawlessly but I'm not going to do that 100 times ... So I hope you guys will test the latest revs and report your experience. ...

Great job, Thanks!!! so far every time I've connected it's worked 100%, no more OF to mess with \o/ I'll test various machines tomorrow ...

[Smiff]

yeah this (USB) def works. hoping for a Df build with this. and do you really have to break it? :/ s*d the ipod!

[dfkt]

Thanks for the early Christmas present, Funman.

New patched build: r31375M-111220-sansaclipzip (FS#9305, FS#11304, FS#11767, FS#12075, FS#12338, FS#12454, channel swap) - dfkt

[WalkGood]

Brief follow up: tested XP & vista numerous times works great! Although on 1st attempt to win 7 received a fail but 2nd attempt was successful

[dfkt]

Official v4.0 bootloader: clipzip01.01.18-rockbox_bootloader-v4.0

[Smiff]

definitely some weirdness.. first time its connected on a clean install of RB, only the SD card appears, or a crash (player, and one time my PC). after that it seems to work ok!

on the Ubuntu 10.10 32bit PC, i had it hang the USB system completely ("lsusb" returns nothing, had to reset PC, logs nothing)
not sure if this is something the ClipZip+RB is doing, but not had problems before!

what does the 4.0 bootloader change please?

[funman]

Originally Posted by Smiff

what does the 4.0 bootloader change please?

It enables USB in the bootloader: press center while plugging USB cable and it should enter USB.

[skip252]

Not finding a need to do anything other than plug it in here to get it to connect in Rockbox USB. It's behaving the same as my V1 Sansas. Plug it in, it connects in Rockbox, unplug it and it stays in Rockbox, no database refresh. It just doesn't get better than that.

[WalkGood]

I don't have to press center either, just plug it in and it connects, unplug and just as skip said it stays in rb without any db refresh ...

[funman]

Yeah it only applies to the bootloader.

Here is what it does at boot:

if select is pressed, enter usb mode
if no disk partitions, enter usb mode
if partitions broken, enter usb mode

1) mount partition
2) run .rockbox/rockbox.sansa
3) ???
4) profit

So if you don't do anything, it finds partitions, mount them, run rockbox.sansa from the storage, and enter usb mode inside rockox.

So now if you format your device, you can still reinstall rockbox without using OF

[Smiff]

that seems like a good idea.

any ideas on my USB crashes please? anyone else using linux?

[dfkt]

Re-install the 4.0 bootloader, run a checkdisk or fsck, and/or format the player and SD card with the SD formatter, put a fresh Rockbox firmware on it.

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by skip252

Not finding a need to do anything other than plug it in here to get it to connect in Rockbox USB. It's behaving the same as my V1 Sansas. Plug it in, it connects in Rockbox, unplug it and it stays in Rockbox, no database refresh. It just doesn't get better than that.

Same here, new bootloader, and current build, just plug it in and it connects......sayonara, OF!

[CLipster]

Is that all we should see?

I can delete all the other stuff?

[cbomb]

I'm a happy Rockbox with USB Linux user. It works flawlessly. After three days of testing I can say I didn't have any problem at all. Thanks funman and all the people working on this great project!