Hi,

Whenever i turn on my empeg, it always says "End of Playlist", it use to go back to the last song it was playing before. I connected the Serial cable to see if something was going on with the hdd's and i see this at the end:

cat: /drive0/var/tts/greetings.pcm: No such file or directory
hijack_exec("", "exec /drive0/var/ttsclock"), 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
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 0
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 0

Can anyone tell me about this error?

thanks

I didn't know if i should post the whole thing, so here it is.



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 kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v395 (mark@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.
95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sun Jun 27 17:52:49 EDT 2004
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102524) 16MB DRAM
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 67706d65 'empg'
Found custom animation at offset 0x9877c
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
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 d0004280).
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...
hda: HTS548040M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HTS548040M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: HTS548040M9AT00, 38154MB w/7877kB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63
hdb: HTS548040M9AT00, 38154MB w/7877kB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63
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:d7:26:09:d
c
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).
Timezone: /usr/share/zoneinfo
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
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
Timezone: /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

Saved AC volume was 90
Volume=90
hijack_exec("", "exec /drive0/var/setvol"), rc=0 (okay)
Saved AC volume was 90
Volume=90
PlaYing sAMPle 115
hijack_exec("", "exec /drive0/var/randomsound"), rc=0 (okay)
Saved AC volume was 90
Volume=90
PlaYing sAMPle 38
hijack_exec("", "exec /drive0/var/randomsound"), rc=0 (okay)
Using theme x with intro x
5 12 17 08 50
Saved AC volume was 90
Volume=90
/drive0/var/tts/greetings.pcm /drive0/var/tts/morning.pcm /drive0/var/tts/todayi
s.pcm /drive0/var/tts/week5.pcm /drive0/var/tts/month12.pcm /drive0/var/tts/17th
.pcm /drive0/var/tts/xthetimeis.pcm /drive0/var/tts/x8.pcm /drive0/var/tts/x50.p
cm /drive0/var/tts/xam.pcm
cat: /drive0/var/tts/greetings.pcm: No such file or directory
hijack_exec("", "exec /drive0/var/ttsclock"), 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
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 0
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 0

I would suspect a corrupted filesystem here: do a quick FAQ for what to do.

Thanks for the replys but it's weird when I Run the e2fsck Fix from the FAQ. this is what I get:

Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# umount /dev/hda4
empeg:/empeg/bin# umount /dev/hdc4
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapon /swapfile
Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -1)
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda5 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda5: 1515/4096 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 9458/16384 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hda4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda4 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes

etc........

Why does it say no such file or directory? or am i doing something wrong?

No, that's normal because of the nonstandard way the empeg's Linux installation is.

While you my have a corrupted filesystem, I believe that the I/O errors are hardware errors and need to be corrected themselves. Could be the IDE header, the cable, or the hard drive. There's a FAQ on what to look for.

The error is on /dev/hda3, not the one(s) you ran fsck on.

/dev/hda3 is where the player software saves a lot of settings, including the current running order (playlist) and per-track settings and stuff.

There is no fsck for /dev/hda3, but you could instead simply wipe it clean and hope that fixes the error.

Connect via serial port, hit control^C to break out of the player and get a shell (command) prompt. Then do this to wipe out /dev/hda3:

cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda3

Cheers

empeg:/empeg/bin# cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda3
cat: write error: No space left on device
empeg:/empeg/bin#

i should have 9 gig left

yeah, like Roger said, that message was expected, and good to see.

Now cycle the power and see if it works.

Cool that problem is gone but i still get this error

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).

should i ignore?

thanks for all your help

That's just a useless "warning", not an error.

Ignore it.

Cheers

an It just says that a certain time or number of mount operations has elapsed since last file systemcheck (fsck) was run on the partition. d can, IIRC, be turned off with Hijack. No worries, if something potentially truly bad happens (like forgetting to remount as read-only after having something mounted read-write) it wll stilll notice and complain. A synch will take care of the mattter, but it wlil ltake longer (with big drives potentially loooong) time as it wll then do an fsck at that time. Which is annoying as Murphy assures it will be the time whenyou just wanted to toss on a few new tracks or a few tag updates and be on your way...

i am having the same error as michael_corleone.

it turns out to be a hdd problem...bad sector. running hitachi DFT and erasing the disk. i hope it works.