What makes you say that? He said it was a Seagate Momentus 160gb drive, and a quick google tells me that drive is a laptop drive.

The drive with the 16 second spin up time wasn't that drive, it was a 3.5 inch one.

Sorry, missed that point.

Sorry. I confused the issue by mentioning that.
It was meant as a reference to modern drives taking longer to psin up and recently the trouble I've been having getting them working in our legacy products (PATA change to SATA is causing troubles but fixable ones).

As luck would have it, our Seagate rep is in tomorrow and the question about the Momentus is in our brief to ask, since it isn't in their technical documents.
Hopefully the person asking will remember for me.

I'll look about the kernel, it'll involve asking someone to do me a favour, or a lot of time on my part looking at setting up a development environment. Thanks for the walk through mlord !

The saga continues.

I've been just listening to the radio without any mp3's loaded on the unit and came to do that yesterday but cannot.
Emplode doesn't likeit, it quits with a message along the lines of: Failed to open tags (0xc0041002)

So I deleted the partitions on the drive and used Mark's version 10 of the big disk builder. Previously I'd used version 3 and heeded the warnings about it being experiemental.
I also used his build of the code with hijack 488 preinstalled.
Worked fine, but still I get the same message.

For whatever reason it's not liking this 160Gb drive.
I looked over the partitions are suggested in other threads:

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/306417
http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/311430

But giving in for now.

I'm about to swap down to a 120Gb, but happy to debug if it'll help people out in the future. I can stick it into a spare empeg for testing.

I'm hoping the 120Gb will work ok.

The original 20Gb which came out of it works fine.

OK, life hates me.
The 120Gb drive isn't working either.
Same issue.

Emplode says:

Download failed while checking database
Error 0xc0041002




I'm sure I read the FAQ correctly.
Big disk builder kernal upload with the tool. Check.
Player kernel upload with same tool. Check.

0xC0041002 is "No such file or directory" (Player error)

Clearly it can't find its database files.

Did it look like the builder upgrade and the player upgrade both worked?

If so, get to a shell prompt and see if you have the "fids" folder in the expected location.

If so, see if forcing a database rebuild fixes the problem.

I remember when I upgraded my Empeg with 2 160GB drives that I had problems with the V10 disk builder. I went back to the V9 disk builder and everything worked.

I also did one sync using Jemplode .70 after the upgrade only setting the config.ini.

Attack, thanks for that. I'll give it a whirl with my spare player. Sick of taking the other one apart and it's only just wearing it out more.