Ok, this is what I have got from hyper terminal, what does it mean?

empeg-car v0.04 19990121 (altman@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-empeg52 (rob@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #9 Tue Apr 1 18:47:56 BST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 9
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 4, serial number 00017)
Command line: mem=8m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 7324k/8M available (580k code, 20k reserved, 264k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 1024 (order 1, 8k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
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 ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg remote control/panel button support initialised (Using FIQs).
empeg usb initialised, USBN9602 revision 1
empeg state support initialised 0089/8893 (save to d0005180).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power state driver initialised
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
empeg FM radio driver (Philips).
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg dual channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
hda: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
Registering drives...
ide0 at 0x040-0x047,0x078 on irq 7
hda: IC25N080ATMR04-0, 76319MB w/7884kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_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
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,4).
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as ext2 but got error 22
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
No primary hard disk
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To ComplùStarti
ng player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1425 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4028d000

It means you have one working 80GB hard drive, with nothing on it yet (?)

EDIT: actually, there IS something on it.. I just missed the partition check first time I looked. Does it work?

Well, then that is good, that's what it has. But for some reason emplode will not open so I wasn't sure. It keeps giving me that "performing illegal operation" crap.

In reply to:

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Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,4).
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as ext2 but got error 22

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Mmm.. have you run the diskbuilder .upgrade on that drive to prepare it for Empeg use?

Yes but I wasn't sure if it ran right or not. Maybe I should try again?

Might as well.. the music partitions /dev/hda4 does not appear to have been completely created on it.

Cheers

Applying it again now. I'll let you know how it goes.

Ok, here is what it said after reapplying the builder image.

hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initVFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev i
de0(3,4).
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4,
or too many mounted file systems
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
umount: /drive0: not mounted
Making first drive...
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda4 is mounted.
no room for private writable mapping
error: -12
/dev/hda4: Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Speed checking /dev/hda3
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Read/write of 8Mb took 7.47 seconds
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Drive length is 156301488 blocks, seek testing
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Seek test complete: 38.00 seconds.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Speed checking /dev/hda3
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Read/write of 8Mb took 7.54 seconds
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Drive length is 156301488 blocks, seek testing

empeg-car v0.04 19990121 (altman@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-empeg52 (rob@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #9 Tue Apr 1 18:47:56 BST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 9
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 4, serial number 00017)
Command line: mem=8m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 7324k/8M available (580k code, 20k reserved, 264k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 1024 (order 1, 8k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
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 ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg remote control/panel button support initialised (Using FIQs).
empeg usb initialised, USBN9602 revision 1
empeg state support initialised 0089/8893 (save to d0005080).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power state driver initialised
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
empeg FM radio driver (Philips).
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg dual channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
hda: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
Registering drives...
ide0 at 0x040-0x047,0x078 on irq 7
hda: IC25N080ATMR04-0, 76319MB w/7884kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_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
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,4).
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as ext2 but got error 22
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
No primary hard disk
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To ComplùStarti
ng player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1425 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4028d000

empeg-car v0.04 19990121 (altman@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-empeg52 (rob@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #9 Tue Apr 1 18:47:56 BST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 9
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 4, serial number 00017)
Command line: mem=8m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 7324k/8M available (580k code, 20k reserved, 264k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 1024 (order 1, 8k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
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 ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg remote control/panel button support initialised (Using FIQs).
empeg usb initialised, USBN9602 revision 1
empeg state support initialised 0089/8893 (save to d0005100).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power state driver initialised
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
empeg FM radio driver (Philips).
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg dual channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
Registering drives...
Probing primary interface...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...

empeg-car v0.04 19990121 (altman@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-empeg52 (rob@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #9 Tue Apr 1 18:47:56 BST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 9
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 4, serial number 00017)
Command line: mem=8m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 7324k/8M available (580k code, 20k reserved, 264k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 1024 (order 1, 8k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
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 ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg remote control/panel button support initialised (Using FIQs).
empeg usb initialised, USBN9602 revision 1
empeg state support initialised 0089/8893 (save to d0005100).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power state driver initialised
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
empeg FM radio driver (Philips).
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg dual channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
Registering drives...
ide0 at 0x040-0x047,0x078 on irq 7
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 15
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To ComStarting
player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.

empeg-car v0.04 19990121 (altman@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-empeg52 (rob@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #9 Tue Apr 1 18:47:56 BST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 9
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 4, serial number 00017)
Command line: mem=8m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 7324k/8M available (580k code, 20k reserved, 264k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 1024 (order 1, 8k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
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 ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg remote control/panel button support initialised (Using FIQs).
empeg usb initialised, USBN9602 revision 1
empeg state support initialised 0089/8893 (save to d0005100).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power state driver initialised
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
empeg FM radio driver (Philips).
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg dual channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
Registering drives...
ide0 at 0x040-0x047,0x078 on irq 7
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 15
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To ComðStarting
player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.
! tunedb_disk.cpp :1224:Database size mismatch error.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1425 Feb 7 2002
Vcb: 0x4028d000

empeg-car v0.04 19990121 (altman@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-empeg52 (rob@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #9 Tue Apr 1 18:47:56 BST 2003
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 9
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 4, serial number 00017)
Command line: mem=8m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 7324k/8M available (580k code, 20k reserved, 264k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 1024 (order 1, 8k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
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 ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg remote control/panel button support initialised (Using FIQs).
empeg usb initialised, USBN9602 revision 1
empeg state support initialised 0089/8893 (save to d0005180).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power state driver initialised
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
empeg FM radio driver (Philips).
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg dual channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
hda: IC25N080ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
Registering drives...
ide0 at 0x040-0x047,0x078 on irq 7
hda: IC25N080ATMR04-0, 76319MB w/7884kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_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
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,4).
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as ext2 but got error 22
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
No primary hard disk
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To ComplùStarti
ng player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1425 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4028d000
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Speed checking /dev/hda3
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Read/write of 8Mb took 7.50 seconds
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Drive length is 156301488 blocks, seek testing
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Seek test complete: 38.31 seconds.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning down.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
Stressing /dev/hda: Spinning up.
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5
hdstress.cpp 189 ( 14): Poll result=0 on fd=5

Ouch:

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hda4 is mounted.
no room for private writable mapping
error: -12
/dev/hda4: Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock

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Basically, it ran out of memory (Mk1 has only 8MB) while trying to create the filesystem for the music partition. The drive is just plain too big for the diskbuilder.

I suppose one might be able to create the filesystem "by hand", with parameters that require less memory. But first, try the Mk2 diskbuilder on it in a mk2 machine (ugh!). Once that succeeds (it will), then install the Mk1 .developer image onto it.

If all that fails, we'll have to do it the "hard way".

Cheers (?)

Ah, I must be the first to try and put an 80GB in the MKl. I'll have to wait until tomorrow night to try and build the disk in the MKll first. I'll update the thread then.

I'm glad to know that it isn't a problem with the hard drive itself.

edit: Thanks for the help Mark

I'll have to wait until tomorrow night to try and build the disk in the MKll first.

Good idea. That should work. Run the builder with the drive in a Mk2, reapply the mk2 developer upgrade while it's still in the Mk2 so you don't fry whatever disk you plug into the Mk2 afterward, then plug it into the Mk1 and apply developer Mk1 onto it on its first powerup. Tricky, but I think it'll work.

Mark, that was a quick diagnostic. Cool. Nice catch.

Does this not bode well for the Mk1 in terms of upgrades? Or could code tweaks to the mk1 version of the builder image take care of it? As I recall, the builder images are going to need an update to allow bigger than 127gb anyway, maybe we can bribe the right people with curry and/or beer?

Ouch!

Sorry about all the trouble. I have been recommending the 80GB drives - I did not know that they would not build "new, out of the packet" on a Mark 1.

That's ok. I consider it an honor to get to be the first to experiment with getting an 80GB working in the MKl, I like a challenge.

Would it be possible to build a swap partition first and have the builder software be able to key off that? I would think that the partitions themselves can be built easily by the builder code, it is just the new filesystem generation that seems to be locking up.

It would probably require a rebuild of the builder software in order to get it to use swap, though...

A thought...

Does this not bode well for the Mk1 in terms of upgrades? Or could code tweaks to the mk1 version of the builder image take care of it?

Oh 'eck. I suppose we have run mkswap by that stage, so we could enable swap for making the music partition.

I'd be worried, though, that a Mark 1 won't have enough memory for the size of database occasioned by 80 or 160 gigabytes of music...

Peter

Do you know what the largest size drive that it could handle with the memory that it has?

That would likely depend on the number of files, the amount of compression, etc. From what I have seen, and if this is a good estimate, my 120GB of music only generates a database file of about 2.5MB.

Now, I don't know what other memory is in use, but I would be interesting to find out...

From what I have seen, and if this is a good estimate, my 120GB of music only generates a database file of about 2.5MB.

Ah. Laura could have a problem then. A Mark 1 has a total of 2.5M available for caching and database. If the database alone is larger than that, the player will not start. If the database is larger than about 1.75M, there will be so little cache that the player can never spin the disk down.

Peter

The immediate limit here is not the number of files (which is currently ZERO when it fails), but the memory that the filesystem maker wants.

By doing the diskbuilder in a Mk2, this step will be avoided, and a subsequent Mk1 consumer image (or developer) .upgrade would complete the install... will probably even work!

THEN the database and file counts become the new limit.

Cheers

Hi, I put a 60gb in my Mark 1 a couple of months ago and ran across this problem. What I did do (and posted about it here) was to just run builder in the Mark II and put the drive back in the M1, apply player, and all is well.

The immediate limit here is not the number of files

I believe that Paul's post was in response to Peter's:

I'd be worried, though, that a Mark 1 won't have enough memory for the size of database occasioned by 80 or 160 gigabytes of music...

Oops. Yes. I read the BBS in flat mode, as opposed to threaded. I keep forgetting about that...

Here's an easy thing to try, if you have not already simply moved the disk to a Mk2 for the diskbuilder step:

Install the Mk1 developer image, with the disk still in the Mk1. This will fail at some point, but ignore it. Then, reboot the player with the serial link hooked up, and hit 'q' or 'control^C' to quit back to a shell prompt.

From the shell prompt, try:

mkswap /dev/hda6
swapon /dev/hda6
mke2fs /dev/hda4 <--- Peter can tell us the exact parameters to use here

Then reboot and see what happens.

Cheers

I always prefer a software solution than digging out a screwdriver and allen wrench.

I'd be worried, though, that a Mark 1 won't have enough memory for the size of database occasioned by 80 or 160 gigabytes of music...

Well, if they encode everything as WAV or 320cbr, then probably no big deal.

In theory, you can solder 4 more RAM chips onto a Mk1 on the underside, then enable them in the SA1100 and tell linux it has a full 16MBytes. I've not tried it, but it definitely should work. Not sure what the player would make of it, as it wouldn't be expecting a Mk1 to have that much ram...

Hugo

I've been busy and haven't tried it yet but I should get around to it this weekend. I'll go ahead and try building the drive in the MKll first. As I only have enough songs at the moment to fill a little more than half the space, hopefully the database won't be too big for the memory to handle.

Not sure what the player would make of it, as it wouldn't be expecting a Mk1 to have that much ram...


Hugo, in your wildest imaginings, when you were designing the Mark I did you ever think the day would come when people would be trying to cram 80 GB (or even 160 GB) of storage into it?

tanstaafl.

No, but we did want to allow the player to be fully expanded. The factory didn't like the pads on the bottom of the boards (like the mk1) as they kept getting shorted during flow soldering of the through-hole parts... so we had to take them off for the mk2.

Thinking back, maybe the ring-o-lights is less useful than the option of taking a mk2a to 48Mbytes (6 chips)

Hugo
Hugo

I don't know about that. The ring-o-lights is a very nice feature...

By the way, did you get the drive built?

I finally got around to building the drive in the MKlla tonight and then I loaded the MKl software, seems to be fine. Now I want to copy a 5GB drive on to the 80GB. All this room, I better get busy on uploading some music to it and buying more CDs to rip.

I want to thank Tony again for the wonderful drive upgrade guide. I was able to copy the drive I wanted to very easily, ok, so it took me a few times to get the spaces exact on the command line, but when I did, away it started copying.

You're quite welcome!

I'm debating whether or not to add your "run builder on a Mk2" trick to the upgrade guide or not. I'm hoping there's some kind of another good work-around that doesn't require a Mk2 player to get the job done...

It would be nice to be able to upgrade without having to have a MKll to use. Some people don't have both models to play around with. Maybe someone will come up with a work around in the near future.

empeg could change the builder image to use the swap partition they've just created. That should solve the problem but I doubt it would be very fast.

- Trevor

Seeing as how the builder image is in need of an update anyway (to incorporate the greater-than-127-mb changes to the kernel), I'm hoping that they can release a new builder image as part of the 3.0 beta, and then I won't need to updated the D.U. Guide.

Damn. I just got an 80gb problem and I'm getting this same error, but on a Mk2. Is it possible that with an 80gb drive it needs the extra 4mb found in a Mk2a? I was hoping to do the drive upgrade using my Mk2 so I don't have to sacrifice my Mk2a until the last minute (when I copy over the dynamic data partition et. all.)

Or is there some other cause of this? I've tried using both builder images (the "outdated" one and the "test" one.)

Greetings!

It is right on the borderline. What you might want to do is just open the Mark2A, disconnect the drives that are in it, and hook the new 80GB drive up. Do the build there, and then reapply 2.0 and hijack on the 2A. Disconnect the new drive, reconnect your existing ones. This will leave your Mark2A with the newly loaded 2.0 and hijack, but with all of your old configuration and music data. It will also give you a pre-built disk that you can drop in the Mark2... Note - you will need to install 2.0 and hijack on that Mark2 as well.

It is right on the borderline.

Right past the borderline, it seems. Throwing my 80gb drive into my Mk2a did the trick. I suppose I could have switched it back to my Mk2 for the sync process (keeping my Mk2a active with the old disk drives in it) but I just bit the bullet and went without an empeg for a couple days. I synced about 2/3 of my collection last night and began the rest of it this morning, hopefully it'll be done by the time I get home tonight.

BTW I suggest to anyone who's starting over and syncing their entire collection definitely avoid having v3 alpha on their player when they do it. I had absolutely no success syncing using v3 alpha, but once I flashed back to 2.0b13 everything worked great. Seems to me one can be semi-confident in using v3 alpha for small syncs (5 or 10 albums) but anything beyond that seems beyond its abilities.

Heya, sorry to bring an old old thread to live...

I just got a nice 80gb Hitachi for my Mark 1 and I'm having trouble building the drive, as Laura had in this thread earlier. Now I'm wondering if there is another solution than building the drive in a MK2 or MK2a, since I don't really have one to build in.
I was wondering if it could be possible to build the disk in my PC (workstation with 3.5 -> 2.5 adapter or a laptop)? Then there should be enough RAM for the process

Any hints?
MLord suggested in this thread

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mkswap /dev/hda6
swapon /dev/hda6
mke2fs /dev/hda4 <--- Peter can tell us the exact parameters to use here

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Is this working? Didn't test it yet...
I wonder also that there's no mentioning of the problem anywhere handy, not in the Drive upgrade document and I really worked to find even this thread through the millions of posts in this forum d=/

Hopefully someone can give me some hints fast, my Empeg is opened on my table and I'd like to get it on the road a.s.a.p. d=)

- d3

Certainly doable - if you have a machine that runs Linux (if not, a boot floppy or boot CD is useful - like tomsrtbt and Knoppix)

You need to create the same partitioning scheme as the builder would. For sizes (except the music drive - use all that is left over) look at the existing partitions on your current drive.
I think the parameters to use for the mkfs command when creating the file system on the music partition (to get the proper space per inode ratio) have been stated previously here on the BBS...

/Michael

Ok so there is still some hope for the big drive d=I

Umm, I can't really create partitions from Linux, I would really need specified help/commands for the job. And I don't have Linux installed anywhere, but I do have Knoppix laying somewhere...
But could I do this all inside the empeg since I can get into the shell of the developer image?

Well, I need to do some more searching on the bbs... But hope you guys can help me some out more.

Well, I need to do some more searching on the bbs... But hope you guys can help me some out more.


I'll bet that if you asked, you'd have 10 volunteers inside of six hours who would be happy to build your drive for you if you were to mail it to them. With transit time it might take a week, but would be a painless, sure-fire method of getting the job done.

tanstaafl.

I'll bet that if you asked, you'd have 10 volunteers inside of six hours who would be happy to build your drive for you if you were to mail it to them. With transit time it might take a week, but would be a painless, sure-fire method of getting the job done.

But where's the fun and education in postal services?! Plus being a week (or more) in a silent car? *phew* Are you out of your mind?!
I'm living in Finland and with my experience from the postal service, I really wouldn't trust my harddisks for them to handle d=/

But could I do this all inside the empeg since I can get into the shell of the developer image?

Well, no. That's the problem: not enough memory in the empeg. You'll need to connect it to a PC (as you already suggested) and figure out the correct commands.

figure out the correct commands

Watch this space, coming right up...

Partitioning your empeg: http://www.differentpla.net/node/view/199
Formatting your empeg: http://www.differentpla.net/node/view/200

Alright! Go Roger!
Thanks dude!

I think this info should be added to the FAQ / Drive upgrade guide, agreed?

I'll post the results here, hopyfully I manage to do this d=)

Formatting your empeg: http://www.differentpla.net/node/view/200

I'm pretty sure the builder, at least these days, uses "-s 1" and no "-b" option -- in other words, just like the second command-line you give. Older builders might have done it differently, but "-s 1" is little short of essential on vast modern drives.

Peter

I'm pretty sure the builder, at least these days

Those commands build the disk in exactly the same way as the "Test Builder Image (2001/10/22)", that I just downloaded, does.

It seems that the builder file on www.empeg.com should be updated to use the better scheme. It uses an earlier version of mke2fs anyway -- possibly explaining the difference (maybe the defaults have changed).

I've updated my page to emphasise the preferred command.

I'm living in Finland

Woah! Finally another countryman here!

Woah! Finally another countryman here!

Heh, finally?-) I've been here for a quite time... I think I got my Empeg in 2001. Registered to bbs about that time, might been '02?

Ok,

Now I've been copying the fids from the old 10gb drive for 2 hours and it's finally done. Now starting to copy the 20gb drive there also d=/ Maybe it's then 2x the time, 4 hours?

I'm not sure if things were quite right, here's something from the bootup that I don't understand:


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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 15
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disStarting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

Sorry about the hyperterminal scramble... What does the line 'Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reinsefs but got error 19' mean?

I did get something odd as a result from Formatting the music partition -section. Everything else just as the guide tells, but after the Writing superblocks thingie there was something more. Stupid of me didn't capture it.... But I just shrugged, didn't look at all too serious

Also funny that I couldn't access the Empeg with Emplode when the new drive was plugged, crashed when building the database I believe. Lack of fids? Builder does more than the manual style?

What does the line 'Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reinsefs but got error 19' mean?

Added a FAQ entry just for you, and the other thousand people who ask that question.

Damn. Then my unit must be ok!
(Don't tell anyone I didn't really search the FAQ for that one because I thought it was related to the manuallybuildingthedrive)

Well, I guess I'll have to get up early tomorrow, just to check on my Empeg that everythings copied ok and reassembly the unit so I can try it in the production environment!

Heh, finally?-) I've been here for a quite time...

But being quiet in the best Finnish tradition?

Heh, finally?-) I've been here for a quite time...

But being quiet in the best Finnish tradition?

shhh.. not that loud.
Talkative only when I have problems, or when I'm drunk. Often both.

Talkative only when I have problems, or when I'm drunk. Often both.

Now why does that remind me of Night On Earth

I'll post the results here, hopyfully I manage to do this d=)

Ok, partitioned and formatted the 80gb drive according to Roger's guide. Copied everything from the old drives to the new one. I have only the new drive plugged in now, the two old drives are on my desk. All the songs show correctly in the Empeg, plays in the car etc.

Problems:
- Can't access the Empeg via Emplode. Emplode crashes after Rubuilding the databases.
- Everything Empeg is rebooted it will Rebuild the databases. Even incar, takes ~2 minutes... I was wondering if there went something from in the mke2fs -part of the hda4 formatting After the format it said that partition is checked after 30 (or was it 60?) mounts or 180 days, whichever occurs first.

Hints for these issues? Empeg is Mark 1 with 2b13, no Hijack. Emplode is 2.0. Haven't yet tried with my desktop computer, this all was done with the laptop.

Can't access the Empeg via Emplode. Emplode crashes after Rubuilding the databases.

Can you get a serial log from the player, and a log from emplode (under Options/Troubleshooting)? Post them as an attachment here (ZIP 'em if you need to).

Everything Empeg is rebooted it will Rebuild the databases. Even incar, takes ~2 minutes...

This is because emplode's failing to rebuild the database. This is a FAQ.

...in the mke2fs -part of the hda4 formatting After the format it said that partition is checked after 30...

Unrelated.

I'll try putting some music on my newly-formatted player with emplode, and see what happens.

Aren't you glad I've got a spare player?

I'll try putting some music on my newly-formatted player with emplode, and see what happens.

Well, it worked fine. Odds are that there's nothing wrong with the way the disk's built.

Greetings!

Problems:

Okay...

- Can't access the Empeg via Emplode. Emplode crashes after Rubuilding the databases.

This is a similar situation to what I see with emplode on my machine. I always thought it was too many fids, but it might be a memory (or lack thereof) problem.

You should find that your new changes made it to your player successfully. All you need to do is rebuild the databases manually. Exit to shell, set your drives read/write, turn on swap (in case it is the lack of memory) and run the player application from shell. It will rebuild the databases this way. Once the player application completes building the databases, exit the player application with a "q", turn off swap, set your drives read only again and reboot. A resync at that point should show everything correct.

- Everything Empeg is rebooted it will Rebuild the databases. Even incar, takes ~2 minutes... I was wondering if there went something from in the mke2fs -part of the hda4 formatting After the format it said that partition is checked after 30 (or was it 60?) mounts or 180 days, whichever occurs first.

This could be two different things.

1) If you do not have permanent database files (from the emplode crash) the player is building these files on the fly. You can tell the difference if the boot text says "building" or "reading" for the music database, playlists and tags files. If this is the case, the above fix will take care of this.

2) Lots of fids or a big database. fidsift will likely help this, but I suspect it is more likely item 1...

Still struggling with the problems. Tried to rebuild the databases manually with the swap activated and all, but still can't make it work. I have no clue where to continue. I found this odd:

empeg:/empeg/bin# ls -la /drive0
total 177
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 4096 Jan 2 08:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 502 220 1024 Jul 24 2002 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 155648 Jan 1 09:24 fids
drwx------ 2 0 0 16384 Mar 25 2004 lost+found
empeg:/empeg/bin#

I thought the databases were under /drive0/var ? the /drive0 was empty after the manually partitioning/formatting/flashing, I copied the fids dir from the old drives. Is this ok?

And the player is building the database and playlists in everyboot, not reading them.
Attached Emplode's crashing log. Emplode crashes after the rebuilding databases -bar has completed.
Also attached the serial output of empeg booting, captured with hyperterminal, the breaks are screwed up I guess...

Waiting desperately for new guides d=/

Attachment 2.

Weird....

Try manually creating a var directory under drive0 and rebuild the database. The lack of a config.ini will be a problem until your first emplode sync, but it should at least save the database files for you.

Hey, it worked!
Thanks pgrzelak!

Any other directories under /drive0 I might want to create?-)
Guess I'll be going to install Hijack next, to disable the waitingfor2ndhd. And I'm just going to hope MK1's mem can handle the database long enough. Maybe I need to do some mp3 cleaning on the unit when it becomes unstable again d=)

Greetings!

I think you should be fine at this point. The only directories that are usually under /drive0 are the fids and var. Plus lost+found, but I don't think of that one very often. Try a sync with emplode now - that should recreate your config.ini file.

As for database size, you should be okay for a little while anyway...

Hey, it worked!
Thanks pgrzelak!

Ah. Of course, I did my testing with the disk as /dev/hdc, so I didn't need a var directory.

I'll update my page to include this.