Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread gl
(from http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,100091,39486537,00.htm): Toshiba announced on Tuesday two 1.8-inch hard drives, including the single-platter 120GB (MKxx31GAL series) and the world's first dual-platter 240GB (MK2431GAH) internal hard drives. The single-platter version also

Re: Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread mat
(from http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,100091,39486537,00.htm): Toshiba announced on Tuesday two 1.8-inch hard drives, including the single-platter 120GB (MKxx31GAL series) and the world's first dual-platter 240GB (MK2431GAH) internal hard drives. The single-platter version also

Re: Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by mat [Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:41:36PM +0100]: (from http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,100091,39486537,00.htm): Toshiba announced on Tuesday two 1.8-inch hard drives, including the single-platter 120GB (MKxx31GAL series) and the world's first dual-platter 240GB

Re: Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread gl
Can I ask why this has been posted to the development list? Because Rockbox may want to support these drives at some point. -- gl

Re: Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:06:59PM +0100, gl wrote: Can I ask why this has been posted to the development list? Because Rockbox may want to support these drives at some point. Rockbox already supports them if you do a custom build (to enable lba48). If that support turns out to be buggy

Re: Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread gl
Rockbox already supports them if you do a custom build (to enable lba48). If that support turns out to be buggy (unlikely, as it is tested on the Archos players) this will be on topic. Has it been tested on the new drives with their new firmware? Obviously not. Really, lighten up. -- gl

Re: Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread gl
Has it been tested with all earphones on the market? Has it been tested with all usb cables on the market? Has it been tested with every mp3 file on the internet? Are all these on topic here? Does everyone here know that the drives are supported in a custom build (I didn't)? Is some

Re: Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by gl [Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:45:00PM +0100]: Whatever, I'm out. And btw, there _was_ a thread here about getting a ZIF-IDE adapter for iRivers - I'm still interested in what happened to that: john wrote: Whatever: A fully functional adapter is now available. This means at least

Re: Toshiba releases 240GB 1.8 drive.

2008-09-10 Thread gl
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ZIFToATAAdapter Thanks. -- gl