hi guys, sorry to bother you all with this problem...

i was following the nuemerous FAQ entries on how to send/recieve files to/from the unit, with the intent of updating the ANNAVU backdrop to tony's updated version - i had the consumer version so i downloaded and updated to the developer version, no problem. created a hyperterminal connection, booted machine, it showed all the right things, i hit Q-enter and it dropped me to the prompt as expected, i ran thru the options and got as far as the 'rw' and 'rwm' commands, it completed the rwm after a minute or two (prompt reappeared successfully), then hyperterminal seemed to crash. nothing i typed would come up on the screen. empeg unit also not responding. not knowing what to do i pulled the power and restarted it. unit restarted and gave the usual output, but then after it boots up it no longer responds to the keyboard commands. 'Q' does nothing. 'N' doesnt change tracks. (my typed commands echo on the screen, but no effect...) etc. on the unit, the player loads up the last song, then enters pause mode - pressing the top button briefly flashes the play symbol then goes back into pause immediately. cannot unpause it. no sound from speakers of course. holding top button also will not shut down the unit, have to pull power on it. this is the same when its in the car.

i redownloaded the developer image and reloaded it again, this still doesnt solve the problem. reloaded hijack, no difference. i am at work now and will try to hook it up here to test and give you a list of the hyperterminal output, but till then i just wanted to post this in case there is something simple that i can do to fix it... im guessing that since i didnt get a chance to change the disks back to read only, that this has caused something to go wrong?

please let me know if i should try anything while im here at work trying to fix it

thanks for your help guys...

Might try rebooting your computer, sounds like the com port got locked. Or try connecting on a different port.

Make sure to reboot the PC, then read this.

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ok, i am back home and continuing to troubleshoot, being unable to do anything at work today...

machine is rebooted. for what its worth, its a P2-300 running XP, 192mb ram. nothing fancy. set up hyperterminal again, and cycled power to the unit, this is basically what i have been getting in hyperterminal:

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empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux....................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50-hijack-v278 (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc version 2.95.
30010315 (release)) #2 Fri Jun 28 14:10:24 EDT 2002
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102710)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14952k/16M available (1040k code, 20k reserved, 368k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 636f6972 'rioc'
Found custom animation at offset 0x98b60
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005700).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHN2300AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHN2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:0a:96
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump... hange_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Feb 7 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
q

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i bolded the parts that seemed out of place / not normal to me, and the bit in red surely is an error that shouldnt be there... which may have something to do with what im experiencing?

it then goes on to say that it is setting the drives to read only anyway? then it allows for me to press 'q' to enter development mode but offers zero seconds to do this! i have held down 'q' as the empeg boots, this doesnt help, but it causes the empeg display to go horribly wrong - the VFD ends up with patterns of flashing lines and dots and 'shaded areas' that seem to change according to the different stages of bootup, but its completely illegible. to reset it, i have to cycle power (display then works again, if i dont hold down 'q' as it starts.

the second to last line of "Vcb: 0x4086d000" is the last line that comes from the empeg - the 'q' after that is me pressing 'q' then <enter>, and having nothing happen (no shell prompt comes up)

tony - i read the section you pointed out - those errors discussed there do not come up - but my problem is that even if they do, my player refuses to enter the shell prompt, so all the troubleshooting steps there are void anyway since i cannot punch in the commands anyway! no response from the empeg! the unit continues to remain in its permanent 'pause' mode (presumably if the drives were unable to be mounted, then it simply cant find the music, so it pauses??) and this renders the unit inoperable.

i can only guess that it MAY be terminal emulation settings in hyperterminal sending the wrong codes to the empeg? so when i hit 'q-enter', my empeg is not seeing it and so will not respond...?? the emulation is set to Auto-Detect, Telnet terminal ID is set to ANSI, Input Translation aka Host System Encoding Method is default set to Shift-JIS (as opposed to Standard-JIS), in other words, its all as default for when a new connection is made in Hyperterminal. and yes, i deleted that connection and recreated a new one, with no change in problem.

please tell me if there is anything else i am not explaining clearly - this is so distressing, i cant understand why it worked perfectly fine getting into the shell before, and now, it completely refuses... and whats the deal with "Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19" !???

*pulling hair out*

ANY help completely appreciated

PS: i dont think it is the serial port as i have used the same one since forever to do all the logo upgrades, flashing, etc etc...

i bolded the parts that seemed out of place / not normal to me, and the bit in red surely is an error that shouldnt be there...

No, actually all of the bolded stuff is perfectly normal, including the red thing that you think is an error.

I do not know why it's dying when you hit "q" to get to the shell prompt. It shouldn't do that unless there's cabling problems or something else odd going on.

Make sure that you've gone through the steps for setting up your Hyperterminal connection EXACTLY as shown in the FAQ, especially the part about setting the flow control.

And those "e2fsck" errors stated in the FAQ won't appear unless you're at a shell prompt and you're mucking about with setting the drives RO and RW, so that's why you haven't seen them yet.

thanks for the help

just as a followup, since nothing else was working (coudlnt get to the prompt) i decided to flash my old consumer 1.03 image back on, after doing this, the unit worked again - was able to start playing without being stuck in pause mode. i then put 2.00b11 on and that also worked fine, and i tested the shell thing and it worked. i decided not to risk anything straight away so ive left it at that but i think it should be ok *sigh of relief* i'll try again in a few days after i work myself up to it again! hehe