#78964 - quadomatic - Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:19 pm
There are a bunch of broken iPod minis and other mp3 players on eBay for cheap. Does anyone know if there is a pretty good chance that the microdrives are working and you can get the microdrive out of them and use them in a GBAMP?
#78967 - Dwedit - Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:35 pm
Regardless, you'd have to cut up the GBAMP to get the thicker card to fit in the thin slot.
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#78968 - TJ - Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:36 pm
If I recall correctly, I did see that if you cut the GBAMP case, you can indeed use microdrives.
#78972 - quadomatic - Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:47 pm
what I mean is, is there a good chance that the broken mp3 player will have a working microdrive, even though it doesn't work.
Like a Creative Zen Micro, is there a good chance that the microdrive still works?
#78977 - sneef - Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:18 pm
there is a good chance the drive is salvagable, but i can tell you from first-hand experience that later models are designed to discourage removal of the microdrive. Earlier creative muvo2 4GB had a standard microdrive, but at one point it was much cheaper to buy the muvo2 than to buy a Hitachi 4GB microdrive. hitachi was supplying them at a discounted rate to creative, and people were buying the muvo and taking the drive out. Hitachi then entered into an agreement with creative to try and discourage this (because it was theoretically hurting hitachi microdrive sales, but i doubt it had a huge impact).
So the later models (including one I had) don't have a normal microdrive pinout, but the microdrive is hard wired to the mainboard. I would assume the zen micro suffered the same fate, as it came out around the same time as the muvo2 5GB
#79019 - mastertop101 - Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:16 am
#79090 - KILu - Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:34 pm
Those CF-like harddrives had a standard ATA / PCMCIA interface and often (always for Creative) are a password-protected.
#79096 - wintermute - Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:50 pm
| quadomatic wrote: |
| There are a bunch of broken iPod minis and other mp3 players on eBay for cheap. Does anyone know if there is a pretty good chance that the microdrives are working and you can get the microdrive out of them and use them in a GBAMP? |
The main reason such devices are broken is usually due to the microdrive being damaged so I wouldn't bother if your main intention is to salvage that part.
Creative Zen especially - I had to replace the microdrive in my girlfriend's Zen Micro recently
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#79166 - quadomatic - Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 pm
i found that it's not a good idea to try this. The person over at lik-sang that, I believe, discovered microdrives work in gbamp, found that microdrives use 3 times the normal battery power when using something like moonshell. That doesn't fit my needs.
#79307 - TJ - Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:57 pm
I figured insane battery drain would be kind of assumed.
#79582 - blasty - Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:22 pm
I smashed a Zen micro and took the 5GB microdrive out. Works fine with my case-cut GBAMP. :)
#79613 - Roc - Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:00 pm
| blasty wrote: |
| I smashed a Zen micro and took the 5GB microdrive out. Works fine with my case-cut GBAMP. :) |
How is the battery life when playing movies and music from it?
#79619 - Stealth404 - Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:44 pm
Anyone else try it from an ipod?
#80464 - blasty - Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:20 pm
| Roc wrote: |
| blasty wrote: | | I smashed a Zen micro and took the 5GB microdrive out. Works fine with my case-cut GBAMP. :) |
How is the battery life when playing movies and music from it? |
I didn't really check that.. My DS is hooked to the AC adapter quite often and I usually leave it at home.
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