I have tries the Hyperterminal program to try to diagnose the problem, the list says everything is OK. Here is everything. How does it look... I still keep getting the hda: disk error multwrit_ or whatever how can I fix it so I can put some music on, I got some files on , but then it started giving me that error.

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-v419 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Mar 23 18:44:43 EST 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 re
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 10101635) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (984k 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)
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'
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 d0004d00).
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: TOSHIBA MK1017GAP, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: TOSHIBA MK1017GAP, 9590MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63
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:d7:22:06:6
3
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 di
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 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
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 CompìStartin
g player
Timezone: PST8PDT
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

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.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d
q
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Player exited normally: 0
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# q
bash: q: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# e
bash: e: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# #!/bin/bash
bash: !/bin/bash: event not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# #!
empeg:/empeg/bin#

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, l
or forever hold their peace...
0000 empeg-car (issue9) board test version 0.05 <hugo@empeg.com>
0100 ram test starting
0110 testing ic 1 (0-15mb, low word)
0120 testing ic 2 (0-15mb, high word)
01f0 ram test done
0200 ide detect
0210 command issued
0220 drive id TOSHIBA MK1017GAP
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 35
04f0 temperature ok
0500 usb detect
0510 usb rev 1012
05f0 usb ok
0600 ethernet detect
0610 ethernet rev 334b
06f0 ethernet ok
0700 cs4231 detect
0710 cs4231 rev a0
07f0 cs4231 ok
00f0 tests complete

Here are ther errors

hda: disk error: write_intr
hda: disk error: irq timeout
hda: disk error: read_intr

Those are the only three so far. Can anybody shed some light on the situation, software issue maybe??

It is unlikely to be a software issue. It is definitely one of the problems listed here. Rememeber that the cable and the IDE header are not the only two problems listed there. There is a large extensive list of possible causes, including a bad disk drive. Make sure to check every single possible cause.

What about the master/slave jumper, which piece is this?? Maybe that is loose?? Also, reading through all these things does not seem to ring a bell as far as the loose header/solder connectors or the copper, the cable is tight on every end and I have even tried switching it to the end cable to see if the problem persists, which it does. Are these errors related, or, I dunno, taking this thing apart and put back together and apart again I wish it would just go away, but since it doesn't take anymore music than roughly 4 cd's it leads me too think that it is a bad disk drive, cause the initial 4 cd's or so get loaded up without a hitch, it is not until I try a 5th cd that these messages appear. Other than that the unit works great.

Jay

Jay

This reminds me.. we really have to get a statically-linked copy of "smartctl" for running on the Empeg to diagnose HD issues accurately.

Cheers

Have you tried erasing the hard disks completely, running the builder image to repartition and reformat the disks?

No, but if I did I would need instruction to do so.

Jay

Instructions for using the builder image are in the disk upgrade guide, here. You can use the builder image without opening the player up.

Just remember you will get the "disk appears to be already built" message and you will have to press Enter in the terminal program to make it build the disk.