Update
After opening my Empeg up and looking at the drives, I found the problem. The Master/Slave jumper had actually fallen off the slave drive. I had it on there pretty good, or so I thought. I'm going to use a little electrical tape to keep that sucker on. Anyway, if anyone else ever sees this, take a look at your jumpers. Don't know if this is FAQ-worthy or not, but maybe instructing people to tape down the jumper might save some benefit to others.

I'm so relieved that it's not something more serious. Whew!

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I put my Empeg in my car today and it hung at the user logo, so when I got home, I plug it in and look at the serial output. I'm going to paste it in here and hope that someone has ideas about what has happened. It should be noted that the failure is disk drive related, and I installed a 2nd drive last week. It was running fine until today, however... Anyway if it doesn't sound like something I can fix, I might be emailing Empeg support and working through it there.. Just wanted to know if anyone else has ever seen this one. My initial guess is some problem with the ATA cable, or possibly the hard drive itself.. Sigh. My warranty is now gone so I sincerely hope this is something I can fix

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 v1.03

Copying kernel...

Calling linux kernel...

Uncompressing Linux...................................... done, booting the kernel.

Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg41 (tonyc@spaz) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #106 Tue Mar 20 12:24:51 EST 2001

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 80000554)

Command line: mem=12m temp=19

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 10920k/12M available (1048k 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: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.

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'

Logo type is 10

Scheduling custom logo.

empeg display initialised.

empeg dspaudio driver initialized

empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0

empeg infra-red support initialised.

IR old: 44298; IR new: 47380

IR old: 44299; IR new: 47381

IR old: 44355; IR new: 47371

IR old: 44354; IR new: 47370

IR old: 44306; IR new: 47454

IR old: 44314; IR new: 47391

IR old: -1072511612; IR new: -1073725640

IR old: -1072638032; IR new: -1073725652

IR old: -1073725580; IR new: -1072470296

empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012

empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004280).

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-DKSA-238000, ATA DISK drive

hda: IBM-DKSA-238000, ATA DISK drive

hda: IBM-DKSA-238000, ATA DISK drive

hda: IBM-DKSA-238000, ATA DISK drive

hda: IBM-DKSA-238000, ATA DISK drive

hda: IBM-DKSA-238000, ATA DISK drive

ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6

hda: IBM-DKSA-238000, 15623MB w/2034kB Cache, CHS=16383/31/63

hda: INVALID GEOMETRY: 31 PHYSICAL HEADS?

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:d7:10:02:2a

Partition check:

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)

Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...hda: IBM-DKSA-238000, 15623MB w/2034kB Cache, CHS=16383/31/63hda: INVALID GEOMETRY: 31 PHYSICAL HEADS?

hda: driver not present

VFS: Cannot open root device 03:05

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

-Tony
MkII #554

Edited by yn0t_ on 26/03/01 02:35 AM.

Just a guess, since I don't know linux error messages, but it sounds like hardware trouble.

First things first. Open the player and check the cabling. Then remove that second disk and see if it boots OK after that.

If so, plug the second drive back in and see if it magically boots (maybe a loose cable?). If not, unplug the first drive and re-format the second drive using Mike's builder upgrade. If that's successful, let it stresstest a while. If that's OK, then perhaps someone here can give advice on how to do a full surface scan of the drive?

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Tony Fabris

If a jumper is loose enough to fall off and needs to be taped in place, then it cannot be making electrical contact. I'd suggest you either crimp it so it grips better (depending on how it's made) or get a new one.

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

I don't think we've ever seen this before - it's certainly not a common problem.

Rob

Good catch. Maybe just bending the pins a little bit will help it make contact and stay on better?

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Tony Fabris

looks to me like the second drive jumper isn't working right.. try disconnecting the second drive, and booting it without it. if that works.. it's the second drive not being a good boy and slaving to the first disk.

12gig red mk2 -- 080000125