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Old January 21st, 2007, 11:32 AM
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Pockbox Playlists directory freeze the iRiver h140 Firmware

Hello,

I was trying the Rockbox firmware, all works fine.
At a moment I decided to go back to the iRiver (1.66EU) firmware (by simple deleting the rockbox.iriver file (or pressing Rec while booting) and surprise, the iRiver fails to boot, freezing on the Read File System screen.
I do a lot of research on this so called Read File System bug, but all tips were unsuccessfull.
So using the USB connection (thanks to Rockbox bootloader) I first empty all files (35 Gb) on the harddrive and then the iRiver firmware boots normally. Il then format, scandisk, reinstall Rockbox, and begin to reinstall my files alphabetically, checking periodically if the iRiver boots with iRiver firmware.
After having created the Playlists directory for Rockbox playlists, the iRiver stop to boot on ist own firmware.
If i delete this directory all works fine.

So it's not really a Rockbox bug, its rather a iRiver bug in the way as a directory named "Playlists" forbid the iRiver firmware to load. but it should be usefull that Rockbox change its playlist directory name in order both firmware works conveniently.
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