I received my 60 GB Rio Car (blue) yesterday and get nothing but logo screen and it's really frustrating. Tried upgrading S/W and now i get "No hard disk found Contact Support" with a Penguin which made my day! :-) I am fairly competent computer and hardware wise but not willing to open unit for Warranty sake yet.I have e-mailed support and waiting to hear back but I'm getting ICE installed on Tuesday so looking for quick fix.

Hyperterminal gives me the following but means little to me:

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 kern
el.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50-hijack-v225 (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc ve
rsion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sat Mar 2 09:22:29 EST 2002
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, seri
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14968k/16M available (1008k code, 20k reserved, 384k 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 bha
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)096K size18
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )nnel IDE
06f0 ethernet ok
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
hda: fUjItSu mHl2300At, ATA DISK drive231 rev a0Wed May 2
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled driveok
00f0 tests comp
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART on irq 6rap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empe
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
hda: fUjItSu mHl2300At, 8063MB w/6144kB Cac
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Uncompressi
Signature is 206f6972 'rio '
empeg display initialised., 8063MB w/6144kB Cache, C
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004700).
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found
empeg RDS driver initialisedon 1112 id 1012
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 di
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
hda: fUjItSu mHl2300At, ATA DISK drive
hdb: fUjItSu mHl2300At, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: fUjItSu mHl2300At, 8063MB w/6144kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
hdb: fUjItSu mHl2300At, 8063MB w/6144kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
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:d7:26:0a:5
6
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
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...attempt to access beyond end of device
03:05: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05


ALSO, ctrl-T gives the following if it helps:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)revision 11
0100 ram test starting
0110 testing ic 1 (0-15mb, low word)
0120 testing ic 2 (0-15mb, high word)
01f0 ram test done
0200 ide detect
0210 command issued
0220 drive id fUjItSu mHl2300At
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 00
04f0 temperature ok
0500 usb detect
0510 usb rev 1012
05f0 usb ok
0600 ethernet detect
0610 ethernet rev 334b
06f0 ethernet ok
0700 cs4231 detect
0710 cs4231 rev a0
07f0 cs4231 ok
00f0 tests complete

Should temp=00??

Regards
Scoopz (scoopz1@hotmail.com) for MSN messenger

Almost certainly disk cable. Contact David at carsupport@riohome.com or support@empeg.com (I think).

Welcome aboard!

Bonzi

Thanks for the reply, have sent e-mail to carsupport@riohome.com so guess I'll just have to wait to hear back from them. Wish I had found this BBS earlier, would have saved myself 7 hours swearing at machine :-) Think I'll go and tidy up my MP3's while I wait, not much else to do.

Cheers

Scoopz

Temp=00 is no biggie. Dunno what it normally reads at boot time, but even afterwards it doesn't work on a lot of players. Which is why it's not used for anything (Hijack can use it a little, but..).

Heck.. the temp sensor on my Mk2a just died a couple of nights ago. Oh Well, didn't need it anyways.

Cheers