I have been trying and trying to get an old mk2 player to boot up, and keep getting the infamous 'No hard disk found...' error. I have checked the faq and threads, and have checked the header cable and other items that I have found, with no luck so far.
So I figured to start from square one (again), and 'hypertermed' into the unit (with the serial cable) and here is what came up

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ÿIf 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 kerne
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Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v464 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Oct 27 01:00:29 EDT 2006
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101787) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k 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 67706d65 'empg'
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
Could not find CS4231A (version=80) --> no visuals for Tuner/AUX.
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004f00).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single ch
Probing primary interface...
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7d55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffd
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7d55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7d55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffd
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7d55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f5
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffd
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
Probing primary interface...
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7d55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffd
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7d55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f5
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7d55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffd
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xfb8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffdf
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff8a
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7f55
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x0049
smc_init couldn't find card
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...

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I am hoping that someone with more smarts than I (after all, I AM a conservative!) can take a look at the above, and tell me if it looks normal or does something obvious jump out. I am really about at my 'wit's end' ... Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!
Thanks
Ladmo

It looks like you probably have a fried ethernet chip. It's got a stuck bit or two. I've not been too good at interpretting the IDE tests, but at least D5 looks stuck low. You will need to cut the line or lift the pin to this or replace the chip.

Stu

Also, the line "Could not find CS4231A" doesn't make things look particularly happy.

Yes, Mark, there was a drive installed. I'm not entirely sure it is good at this point....

I think I'm having the same issue Ladmo does. This thread didn't seem to have a happy ending to it, or did I just miss that? Please, tell me there is a post coming along the lines of "and the empeg lived happily ever after"...

Armin

Are you sure you're having the exact same problem as ladmo, or are you having one of the usual issues?

Tony, I checked the usual stuff, but to be sure I might try lifting a pin on the ethernet chip. It seems that bit D5 is stuck: write FFFF, read FFDF. Am I right to assume that D15 is the MSB and D0 the LSB in that notation?

Or is there any way to check ethernet without a drive installed? Hm I havent even tried that!

Ladmo: good luck! Did they tell you how much the surgery would run? I might try it myself, have some of the "proper tools" at work 8-)

Armin

So it's pin 61 I need to lift. Cross your fingers!

Armin

Lifting the pin fixes the problem. Re-attaching it makes it come back. It's definitely bit D5 in the ethernet chip that burnt out. Looks like others had the same bit fail. Makes me wonder what's going on!

I will try to talk a coworker into replacing the chip. He's much better with fine-pitch soldering than anyone I know. Might need chocolate for a bribe...

Well, there is a happy ending at least in my story! My friend replaced the ethernet chip and now all is well! Cost me $17 for the chip and owing a favor...

Hope your story turns out well too, Ladmo!

I've got a real headscratcher. It appears that I have a bad ethernet chip, but it is not the typical stuck D5 bit that we've seen earlier in this thread. There are several bits stuck high, but D5 appears to be working! In the past it seemed that lifting D5 would allow the other bits to get back in line, but since D5 is working, which one(s) is (are) responsible? Since only the ethernet chip and the IDE bus are 16 bits, it seems that the root cause is either one or both buffer ICs or the ethernet chip. Based on the below bootlog, is there any way to divine which bits to disable on the ethernet chip to get this working?


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-empeg55-hijack-v508 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Jan 9 16:06:35 EST 2009

Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11

Checking for extra DRAM:

c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001

NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.

empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30103020) 16MB DRAM

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15000k/16M available (996k 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'

Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1

show_message("Hijack v508 by Mark Lord")

empeg display initialised.

empeg dsp audio initialised

empeg dsp mixer initialised

empeg dsp initialised

CS4231A: not responding (00) --> no visuals for Tuner/AUX

empeg remote control/panel button initialised.

empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012

empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004900).

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...

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa82

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5481

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa82

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5481

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa82

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd483

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa82

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5481

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa82

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5481

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa82

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5481

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfe83

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa82

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd483

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xfe57

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xfe57

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xfe57

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

Probing primary interface...

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xfe57

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xfe57

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xfe57

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xfe57

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd455

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfe03

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfeff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeaab

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xfe57

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:d7:26:0b:cc

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... VFS: Cannot open root device 03:05

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

Forgive me for my ignorance, but why aren't you just completely replacing the ethernet chip? Is it because you don't have a replacement?

Edit: Academic curiosity is always a valid answer for me.

Good question! We've got a few of the chips, but given that it's pretty labor intensive (without a decent hot air rig) I'd rather not go that route unless that's really the problem. It could also be the level shifters which I would probably do first given the ease of replacing, but again I'd really like to narrow it down to which device is at fault.

Stu

Data bus bits 8 and 15 (numbering from 0..15) are both stuck.

D8 is definitly stuck LOW ('0'), and D15 is probably stuck HIGH ("1").

-ml

I say probably, because there is some contradictory evidence on D15.
So lift D8 (ethernet) first, then try again.

Oh.. and D5 is also stuck LOW. EDIT: mmm.. actually, maybe not.

-ml

One more thing to do on that unit: Apply the CS4231A fix, and see if that helps.

-ml