Hi, I have ran into a problem when I tried to synch my player today. I am hoping that this is just my lack of knowledge about Linux and the player making itself evident here and it is a simple fix.

Right now when I try to use emplode to connect, it appears to try to finish up the synch and during or shortly after "Waiting for the empeg-car to respond" I get a message saying "The download process failed during stage 4: Error 0xfffffffb"

I have tried several times with the consumer and devoper images being reloaded on the player. A few weeks ago I did manage to get displayserver working on it by following the instructions elsewhere on the BBS. I don't think I have attempted a synch since then, so I'm not sure how that affects matters or if it was something else I did. Ever since my synch attempts today, whenever the player reboots it spends about a minute at "Building the music databases..." and this is also true when I try to connect via Emplode and it attempts to finish up it's synch while 'waiting for empeg-car to respond'.

Here is what I am seeing through Hyperterminal when the player is powered up:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 (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 v1.01
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux.................................... done, booting the kernel
.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg38 (mac@fatboy.internal.empeg.com) (gcc vers
ion 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #116 Wed Oct 4 14:32:42 BST 2000
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 90000770)
Command line: mem=12m temp=49
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 11000k/12M available (968k code, 20k reserved, 292k data, 8k 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)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
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
empeg display initialised.
empeg dspaudio driver initialized
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg infra-red support initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005480).
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: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
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:d7:12:03:0
2
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
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ge_root: old root has d_count=1
•W¥¹��ѽ�Õ¹µ½Õ¹Ñ�½±‘�ɽ½Ñ�¹¹¹� okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 8k initI see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Mounting second music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
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 Comð>&B
Sta
rting player
empeg-car 1.01.
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=140354, sector=7298
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7298


I'm not sure what this means or what to do at this point to fix the problem so any help is appreciated. Thanks,

Duane

Eh-oh, sounds like a HDD fault. I suspect it will need bringing in, but I can probably get the music off it onto a new disk for you.

Mail support@empeg.com and ask them about organising this.

Hugo