Okay, so I have a Creative Nomad IIc, and I’m wondering if there’s any way to mod it, specifically adding a hard drive onto it instead of the card-based media. Does anyone know of any resources that may prove helpful in this?
I have one too. Is this for actual practical value or just to prove that you can do it like the people that hypercool their motherboards in liquid to overclock it as fast as possible? If it is for actual use, I would think that you would be much, much better offjust buying a hard drive based MP3 player. The iPod is not the only option anymore. Some of the others are much less than $200 now.
If it is to prove that you can do it, then I will have oodles of respect for you if you succeed. I can’t imagine how that would work. All of the control and playback logic reference internal memory or a smart media card, not a hard drive. You would practically have to reverse engineer an iPod to get it to work.
Uh, where would you put the harddrive? I suppose you could, but you’ll need the casing… a harddrive controller, reprogram the bios… etc.
I’d say it’s just wayyy to hard.
This was asked on slashdot.org a few months ago and IIRC (too lazy to search it’s archives) the consenus was that it wasn’t possable. One problem is that the Nomad II is too small to add even the smallest form of drive even if you could figure out a way to interface it with the memory bus (which seems to me to be the biggest hurtle).
I just use 128MB SM cards. Sure, it’s a pain to have to change the cards around (worst placement and the “eject” slider is a joke) but you can hold a fair amount of mp3s on 128MB.
It’s mainly just to prove I can. It would be much easier if someone else figured it out though, as I woudln’t be too good with reprogramming the bios. Mainly I just want to install an MP3 player in my car, and would like the increased capacity, but i suppose i could make another case, and extend the USB port a few feet so I could plug a laptop into it and send songs via that.
Either that or I’ll just get a PJRC, and customize it the same way.