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My rio karma has been left for years gathering dust. If anyone remembers the
karma you'll know how good they were, 20gb hdd player, decent battery and and
a great user interface.
Anyway, the hdd in mine was getting a little flaky
and i was always afraid of knocking it, so out with the old and in with the new, pull it to bits, make a few repairs from its previous use and slot in a compact flash card.
I also changed the 1600mah battery for a 2200mah one. The CF card will also
increase battery life due to using much less power than the old hard disk.
The old guts of the karma with hitachi hard disk
I first used a SanDisk 8gb compact flash card.
But then upgraded to a Transcend 16Gb X133 (TS16GCF133) CF card, in this photo i removed the
outer case of the card as it fouled with the volume controls. Incidentally
the controller chip is a SM223TF with 4 Samsung K9LBG08U0MPCB0 32Gbit MLC
memories. The part number decodes to:
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K - Memory
9 - NAND Flash
L - Small Classification: MLC DDP
B - Density: 32Gbit (4GByte)
G - Density: 32Gbit (4GByte)
0 - Technology: Normal (x8)
8 - Organisation: x8
U - VCC: 2.7-3.6v
0 - Mode: Normal
M - 1st Generation
P - Package: TSOP1 Lead Free
C - Temp: Commercial
B - Bad Block: Include Bad Block
0 - Pre-Program Version: 0 |
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