I doubt you would need that much space for your music/video content. Cool mod though if you have a busted iPod though.

Don't waste your time.

 

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That should sufficiently explain to you, and everyone else who thinks about resurrecting this thread why it isn't feasible and why the OP/everyone else never came back to say they were successful.

huh? thats talking about direct attaching a hard drive to the AVIC... im talking about putting a larger hard drive in an ipod to make a larger ipod... then attach that like any other ipod to the AVIC... I am not seeing an issue...

plus there are working examples (albiet with a 4th gen)

heres one with a 2.5" laptop IDE drive and further down the page a 3.5" IDE drive (a 120gb)

http://www.openobject.org/objectsinflux/?p=42

the 1.8" hard drives that the 5th gen (video) iPod use are simply IDE hard drives with ZIF connectors... all you need to do is get those pins to your other deice, for example, if you were using a 3.5" IDE drive you could simply use the first adapter I liked to... that device has no logic, no intelligence at all, it simply gives you all the IDE/ATA signals present on the ZIF on a more traditional 40 pin connector which you could use a regular 40/80pin IDE cable to your target device (plus a connector for power since its designed to be used the other way around but we can simply ignore that and power the hard disk separately) or perhaps if your lucky that IDE to SATA adapter (which is designed to connect a STA device to an IDE host)

now the question is going to be if the iPod can handle 48bit LBA (aka >132Gb hard disks)

I think that I will just go the easy route. I already have an iphone, but it is only 16gb, so in other words not capable of holding much music or movies. I am just going to pick up a 160gb iPod classic and Store my tunes and music on it. I will just have it permanently attached in my glove box. They are not that expensive and 160gb is sufficient

I think that I will just go the easy route. I already have an iphone, but it is only 16gb, so in other words not capable of holding much music or movies. I am just going to pick up a 160gb iPod classic and Store my tunes and music on it. I will just have it permanently attached in my glove box. They are not that expensive and 160gb is sufficient

Damn you, abb, for your logic and reason

You mean you don't want to go to ridiculous lengths to have enough music in your car at all times to make sure you can travel around the world 14 times without hearing the same song twice?