One of my 20+30GB drives started to play up so I decided to replace them with a single 80GB.

Single 80 GB installed and I flashed with Mark's builder_bigdisk.upgrade (MD5: f8058035460b062903a9c5359a1fa63d). Without ever using it before all I can say is the builder seemed to run OK, it took about 20mins until it got to the stress tests and I pulled the power shortly afterwards.

While initially sync'ing with the player Emplode complains about tags with an 0xc0041002 code.

I then followed Roger's manual method and all went OK up to Creating directories on the music partition - it complained about a RO filesystem. After running rwm and retrying, I then used "ls /drive1" and saw that /drive1/fids and /drive1/var was already present (these I believe were a gotcha for Matt about 9 months ago).

That's about it from me. Customary bootlog attached.

PS. Along the way I've tried player firmware such as car2_v2.01_hijack.upgrade - presumably, because my drive is below 137GB, I don't need to use hijack'ed player firmware?

Edit: Hmmm, I guess this is a clue...
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)

The hdc4 mention in the logfile confused me somewhat so I've captured another logfile (attached). BTW, there's just the single (new) 80GB hard drive attached here. Why does the bootlog mention hdc?

The reiserFS and HDC4 errors are normal, if I recall correctly.

The Failed to Open Tags error means you never synched once with emplode (as the instructions say to do, if I recall correctly).

If, after synching once with emplode, things still don't work right, then post back here.

Missed that bit, sorry.

Tonight I started from the beginning with Roger's partitioning/formatting procedure,the new 80Gb drive set as slave.

There was one point where things didn't go as expected:
# mount -n /dev/hdc4 /drive1 - I received an error, something to do with mtab and already mounted (apologies for being so vague).
To 'get around' this I ran umount /drive1 and I was then able to complete the manual formatting guide.

Emplode was still bombing but now at the database stage rather than tags but still the same hex error code. [Along the way I have uninstalled my old Emplode, nuked hkey Current user\sonicblue[sic] from the registry and re-installed Emplode 2.0].

Remembering the manual database rebuild procedure, I thought I'd try to be clever so I set about creating these directories:
/drive0/var/database
/drive0/var/database3
/drive0/var/tags
/drive0/var/playlists

Emplode still crashes but now with 0xc0041015 - here's the serial console captured while sync'ing:
Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -1)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda4 is mounted.
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Restart code received
Starting playTimezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
er
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
! tags.cpp : 68:Failed to read tags: 0xc0041015.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x4054d000

This is the partition setup (looks OK to me):Code:

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   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1         5     40131    5  Extended
/dev/hda2             6        10     40162+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            11        13     24097+  10  OPUS
/dev/hda4            14      9729  78043770   83  Linux
/dev/hda5             1         3     24034+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6             4         5     16033+  82  Linux swap

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Player is running 2.01, Hijack 268, current bootlog attached.

Switching to 3.0A10 and removing the dirs I manually created under /drive0/var/ and it is now sync'ing with Emplode.