#Cheap green/red flash mod worked on iPod 5.5, but not 6th gen classic

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clever ocean
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Basically, I had a green CF-zif adapter board and I used a red CF-microSD adapter with it (and a sandisk 256 GB microSD). I'm aware that the iPod classic 6 only supports 128 GB stock, but I haven't heard reports of it not working when you put in more. It worked perfectly fine on my iPod 5th gen (5.5). I believe that I had to use AOMEI to rebuild the MBR, or Victoria to rewrite the first byte as 00, but other than that, it worked.

Unfortunately, I dropped that iPod and it no longer works (sparks, starts smoking, and overall creates a fire hazard when plugging in a battery). When it fell, the iPod fell apart and I think the green board might have potentially faced some damage, although I wouldn't really expect that to be the case.

However, when I attempt to restore the iPod classic 6th gen with the green board and red CF adapter, I get "error 1434" on my Mac (I even tried with Catalina and High Sierra). On Windows, it seems to work, but it just reboots right back into the "Use iTunes to restore" screen and iTunes pops back up asking to restore. This is the case even when using AOMEI to rebuild the MBR. Also, the Victoria method of replacing the first byte, which is "EB," with "00" that is suggested on r/iPod is a little confusing, since the first byte is not "EB" when I plug the SD card into my computer (though the second byte is.) Rewriting either of the bytes or both or neither makes no difference.

Putting the iPod into disk mode with the SD card shows absolutely nothing when trying to open it in Victoria; it only shows zeroes.

I also tried installing rockbox manually, but the rockbox bootloader says "no partition found."

TL;DR is the issue realistically just with the green board, or is this method just not compatible with the 6th gen for strange reasons? I know that the red adapter is known to be problematic, but the workarounds for it (which worked on my 5th gen) don't seem to fix it, and I'm pretty sure the SD card is fine.

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broken hound
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  • rip to that 5.5 gen
clever ocean
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i can't get an iflash, it's just wayyyy too pricey for me to even consider it (especially cuz in theory, the green board and red adapter should totally work with a couple modifications)

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but the sd card works afaik, but i'll use a tester just to make sure

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but i'm wondering why nothing shows up when i open victoria and look at the ipod in disk mode

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i have to take the sd card out of the ipod to see anything, but accessing the ipod in disk mode through finder/explorer still seems to work

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oh i should also mention that i tried it with an 8 gb microsd as well (only thing i have with me rn) and it didnt work

broken hound
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and i understand why you cant buy an iFlash,its pricey. But its a alot more reliable and you have actual support with the Board makers

clever ocean
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but yeah, if i could, i'd get the iflash, but it's just not possible for me. plus i like tinkering anyway and the green card was probably reliable enough until i dropped it

white copper
broken hound
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It's on their website