Well I was going to upgrade to v3.00 a7 and I read to do a full sync before doing so and then I ran into this problem:

I do a sync in jemplode and everything seems to be fine, but what I noticed is when I editted the config.ini (before syncing), it wasn't saving with the sync so I knew it wasn't syncing right. So... I popped open hyperterminal and captured the log here:

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 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v374 (root@ibbm) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Feb 13 16:27:58 EST 2004
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 30103111)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15016k/16M available (980k code, 20k reserved, 364k 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)
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 206f6972 'rio '
Found custom animation at offset 0x9a38c
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
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 d0004800).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 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:d7:26:0c:27
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.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
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 init
empeg 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: intercepting config.ini

hijack_exec("", "exec /usr/local/bin/empacman"), rc=0 (okay)
empacman running as pid 11
emptris v1.3 starting...
hijack_exec("", "exec /usr/local/bin/emptris"), rc=0 (okay)
hijack_exec("", "exec /usr/local/bin/telnetd"), rc=0 (okay)
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
Using non-standard cache size 86 (adjustment 48)
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4056d000

Doing a sync in Jemplode just gives this:

Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09

(reboot)

Now I tried to manually do the sync using this procedure from the FAQ:

ro
umount /dev/hda4
umount /dev/hdc4
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile
sync

But when I do the 'ro' command I get this error:

"mount: can't find /drive1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

so I tried to do the next command, and got:

"umount: /dev/hda4: device is busy"

Right now my player is paused so I don't know why it could be "busy".

What do I need to do to remedy this? I planned on getting rid of the emptris, empacman stuff at the end and only leave emphatic but I can't get the changes to save to the player.

The player is trying to do a (media) filesystem check. This will take from 2 minutes to over an hour, depending how much stuff is loaded on the drives. Be patient. VERY VERY patient. Let it do its thing.

-ml

Looking at the log, it looks like you have two 30GB drives, so take Mark's advice and go watch a movie or something.

I don't see emphatic in the log, but you tell you think of "only leaving emphatic". If it's installed and running, you need to "Quit" emphatic by using its menu and THEN, do a sync. You can't upload songs to the player when emphatic is running.

I don't know if other users noticed this, but I need to do so... Took a long time to find what was going on.

Hope this helps

OK I wasn't sure if that was the reason or not.. that's cool. I'll just wait. BTW, how will I know when it's finished?

Oh and I have emphatic running with the @DC command so it won't show up right now.

Off Topic question for jbradshw,Your signature says

One of the last MK2's from SonicBlue...
Blue/60gig
S/N: 030103111
I have a player with the serial number a few numbers higher than yours but my player is a Rio which I thought was a MK2a.So does yours say Rio or Empeg?

Yeah it's an MK2a so I'm pretty sure it says RIO on it. When I made that sig I wasn't aware of the MK2/MK2a difference.