After past 3 years service my Empeg MKIIa Hard Disk died ....

I searched on the forums for the info but didnt find it.

What hard drive model and how to reinstall a new Os on it ?

Thanks for your help,

Sorry to hear that!

A drive upgrade is pretty simple.

http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Drive_Upgrade&file=index

I used to use the IBM Travelstar drives but Hitachi (?) bought their 2.5" drive business so now I use Hitachi Travelstar drives. You can get good deals here: www.pricewatch.com Avoid Toshiba drives.

Thanks for the Quick answer SE, i searched for 2.5 " HDD but the 2 brands availables are : Samsung and Fujitsu.(I experienced many problems with Fuji HDD at work ...)

So I will order a Samsung .....

But the excellent Tony's FAQ says to use the Disk Builder but I currently use Linux .....
Is is possible to apply the .upgrade with Jemplode ?

Found the empegtoool that will do the job ....

I'll try as sons I receive my HDD .....

Finally, I found the Famous Hitachi Travelstar and ordered one ....

Took the 8 Mo Buffer as the original had only 2 Mo.

Hope it will be quickly in my hands.

I got finally the new 40 GB HD.

tried wth the old HD, that makes some noise ( cri cri cri cri..) but starts but I have the same error mesage NO Hard Disk found !!!

I read the No hard Disk Foun Contact support FAQ , and with the new HD I still have the eroor mesage:

No Hard Disk found ...

Don't know what to do ....

Apologies for not being helpful, but...

A thread titled "Dead Empeg" by Nosferatu.

Made me grin like a loon!

Boot log..

Well, have you been through the whole FAQ relating to diagnosing hard drive problems? The standard problem is usually a bad cable - you don't mention if you have done any of this.

yeah, right I did not mention ...

I crimped the cable but no success.
I think this is a very bad cable ,

I tried to take a look on Eutronix but site is not available.

so now my question is where to buy another ?


ps : Mark , I will grab the boot log ... and put it on the Forum

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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 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v429 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Tue May 10 20:39:19 EDT 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Added temporary pagedir entry for flash memory access
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e2811004
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10102101) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15012k/16M available (984k 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 636f6972 'rioc'
Found custom animation at offset 0x9a38c
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 d0005580).
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: HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hda: HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hda: HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hda: HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hda: HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
hda: HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: HTS541040G9AT00, 38154MB w/7539kB 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:d7:22:08:35
Partition check:
hda: unknown partition table
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |\0x08/\0x08-\0x08\\0x08|\0x08/\0x08-\0x08\\0x08|\0x08/\0x08-\0x08\\0x08|\0x08/\0x08-\0x08\\0x08|\0x08/\0x08-\0x08\\0x08done.
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...\0x00X]]Y[\]H]\0x0b)kk«kÍ\0x81\0x89\0x95å½¹\0x91\0x81\0x95¹\0x91\0x81½\0x99\0x81\0x91\0x95Ù¥\0x8d\0x95)5\0x7fL&'¦\0x93\0x02\0x92ÝõÁ±\0x81Ý\0x85¹Ñõɱ\0x81±¥µ¥ÑõÁ)5\0x1fV\0x96\0x17\0x12Ó\0x93\0x82ª\0x02\0x12±­Í¥é\0x95õÅÁÉÑ\0x81\0x89±½\0x8d­¹ÉõÅ\0x81Í\0x95\0x8dѽÉõÉ\0x81Í¥é\0x95õÅÁÉÑ\0x81\0x8d½Õ¹ÑõÅ)5\0xffEXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
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Do I simply need to apply the Disk Builder ?

Is this with the new hard drive? It looks like it was not built - it cannot find the root partition and is reading a bad partition table. Either the cable is bad, off by one pin, or the drive was new and not built. I would say, yes, reapply the disk builder (assuming this is a new drive with no data on it you want to save) and then reload the .upgrade file.

Yes it is a new hard drive, but I cannot apply the disk builder .... it does not find the unit ...

But it's possible i do it in a wrong way.

I'm under Linux and type this :

./upgclient /mnt/david/Empeg/car2-builder-20011022.upgrade

As my empeg unit is connected to ttys0.

Here is the message I have when trying to apply Disk Builder :

empegupgrade: Using upgrade file 'car2-builder-20011022.upgrade' to device '/dev/ttyS0' (115200 baud)
Checking upgrade file integrity [100%]
Pumping player software
Finding unit [100%]
ERROR: 5 empeg unit not found
Upgrade aborted due to errors [ 0%]
Upgrade failed :-(

Upgrade failed with error 0x80040056

Thanks for the quick answer I tried when the upgrade prog is trying to find unit but the same problem appears when I plug the power supply to empeg....

On the boot log :

er hold my son!, I must warn you that the Flash has beeeh
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May I connect as soon as possible when the Finding unit Phasis starts or I have time to do ?

Pretty certain you don't plug it in until the message asks you to do so. Can't remember off the top of my head, but I seem to recall just following some instruction like that.

My serial works okk because I can read the boot log with no problem at all ......

yeah you're right Mark , but now I don't know what to do ....