Andris Vasers

You can expand possibilities to read also DVD's replacing NAC-HD1E CD-ROM with DVD-ROM drive. Remember than you need DVD-ROM drive with IDE (parallel ATA) connector.

Some time ago I've looked up this site, but this source code are from linux distribution. That page displays what kind of open source GNU (www.gnu.org) Linux standard libraries are used, it normaly that provider publish a list of third party and open source software that are used. In general, there's no source code for their Tiger application, because it's commercial their own and not open source.

I can take NAC-HD1E order, but the problem is, how can I get it to remade I' ve found one solution, that I can prepare hdd and converter board with cables, install instructions and ship to you, after receiving payment via paypal. No need for original hdd, cause I' ve working configuration. Few things what you need to do are backup your music contents on USB external drive such as external HDD, disassemble NAC-HD1E unit, detach hdd, reiceive new hdd, attach and mount it with converter board and connect cables, wiring, then assemble main case, turn it on, then resotore backup from copy, thats all. Pricing, 1TB costs approx. $75* 2TB costs approx $140* 3TB costs approx $250* SATA 2 IDE (paralel ata) converter (verified) costs approx $40* cables and connectors $4* *pricing in Europe, Latvia + job (prepared hard disk with install instructions) + shipping P.S. Remember that's an extra service.

These instructions also are valid for NAC-50HDE and another GigaJuke' s. Computing units practicaly the same for these models, differences between bios on cpu board and also the main DSP pcb' s. Nowadays minidisc practically is dead, but you can use it like a retro player

I've noticed, that Sony has discontinued production of NAC-HD1 GigaJuke. I think, because, something has gone wrong with GigaJuke operating system updates or further development of their Tiger project (that's a name of application on which GigaJuke plays / organizes music, turns). Maybe they left a job for me to take reverse engineering? I have many music (thousands of mp3's on my computer, and also many audio cd's) but I prefer to listen loseless / original audio. ATRAC format also offers better sound quality that mp3. Inside GigaJuke's unit I mentioned that digital audio signal processing components are very qualitative, case - alluminium finished, at the glance, great.

Can you send me this post? Sony NAC-HD1E and NAC-HD1 system is based on SuperH or SH4 architecture - double precision floating point processor and uses linux sh4 distribution with Linux kernel v2.6. as operating system. We don't need windows, because cloning consist only of few Linux/UNIX commands to get this complete. To get secure shell (SSH) working, I modified some files in ext3 filesystem, that was mounted on linux. Widows doesn't offer modifying Linux Unix filesystems, without loss of secure information after saving files. If you open ext3 mounted filesystem on windows, change file, then file attributes gets corrupt. Propably disk cloning can be done from windows machine, but not changes in linux filesystem. Easiest way is to use linux or unix system. Next project I want to do, to get working GigaJuke's internal samba fileserver, to get windows access to files located on hard disk. After that the second thing I'm going to do, is to disassembe application code, to get app source, for further app development for this device and to expand features. I work more than 8 years with unix systems like FreeBSD and write apps for unix. Also I have expierence in electronics for many years, building devices from circuits and making changes in circuits, testing it, etc.

Hello, has somebody tried to hack SONY NAC-HD1 250GB Gigajuke? The one thing I changed, I expanded storage from 250GB to 1TB of storage. Show next post below. Expanding size of your Sony NAC-HD1 is pretty easy. I'll be glad to help you considering NAC-HD1 and moving data partitions to larger hard disk, such as 3TB western digital sataIII drive, cause I have my own NAC-HD1E @ home I migrate all of my music to larger disk. In Europe, sony provide NAC-HD1E model, without "ANY MUSIC" function, other functions are exact to Sony's NAC-HD1 Japanese model. I wrote down things you need to expand NAC-HD1E/NAC-HD1 on larger disk: 1) Destination drive (1TB, 2TB, 3TB ... etc) I used WESTERN DIGITAL, 1TB, SATA, 7200RPM, 32MB cache, RE WD1002FBYS 2) SATA TO IDE CONVERTER BOARD (sony use old parallel ata controller and nowadays P-ATA is going to disappear completely, further disks are provided only on sata interface. Show this link: http://www.cooldrive...toidecofor.html N.B.!!! Remeber, that SATA does not need MASTER and SLAVE modes, theese modes can be selected on CONVERTER BOARD. As we know, system uses hard disk to boot, you need to set it as MASTER disk on CONVERTER, and CD-ROM - SLAVE 3) personal computer (PC) with P-ATA and S-ATA (sata) connectors and linux distribution Live CD, personally I used Fedora core 12 Live CD 4) Acronis Disk Director bootable CD 5) elementary knowledge of basic Linux/UNIX shell commands Instructions (STEP BY STEP): 1) open GigaJuke Deck, disassemble hard disk and it's connectors from unit 2) connect both NAC-HD1 orginal P-ATA hard disk and the new one SATA hard disk drive on which you want to clone GigaJuke to PC 3) boot your computer with linux live and enter system console via terminal and with super-user rights Type su at the command promt: linux# su Then we need device names with apropriate dev's linux# ls /dev then output shows /dev/hda1 /dev/sdb1 etc on system properties under hard disk managment you can detect hard disk's system name. For example, let's say the first drive (original drive from JukeBox) is called /dev/hda (ATA drive) and the destination /dev/sdb (new disk where all information is going to be copied sector by sector) Linux/UNIX cames with utility called data dump, you can execute it by entering command dd with parameters. dd utility can copy hard disk contents sector by sector. to copy original disk contents (boot record, partitions - swap, ext3 fs) you must type the command dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sdb bs=65536 where: dd - data dump utility, if=/dev/hda - source or input drive (listed as hda under dev) , of=/dev/sdb destination or output drive (listed as sdb under dev) , bs = 65536 (64k) - block size (in bytes) typicaly used for harddrive standard block sizes. N.B.!!! do not increase bs size under 64k, it will lead to errors during sector syncronize, smaller values susch as bs=32768 (32k) also can be used, but it takes longer to copy a disk. after copying the disk clone was completed. Only left one problem, after copying, there are only 250GB of allocated space on disk. N.B.!!! Do not use Acronis True Image, it will corrupt swap partition size and need to do disk clone again. Need to resize partition, it's done by Acronis Disk Doctor. You need to boot Acronis Disk Doctor CD and resize partition. after resize boot again linux live cd and shell promt type command fsck fsck sdb and wait till check is complete. Shut down computer and disconnect new hard disk and prepare to put it on GigaJuke Deck. Putting new disk on GigaJuke Assemble hard disk holder unit. Place The converter board on sata connector on hard disk, then wire connectors to converter board and connect PATA cable. GigaJuke is ready The you can fully assemble sony's deck unit. Turn the unit on and wait until it boots. I'll recommend that U have a backup copy of you music and reformat the new free space with format function on NAC-HD1, then restore again, because NAC-HD1 creates indexes for storage, and sometimes unit will be not happy to detect that unit has more storage than it was on previous format. Believe, this may help