I installed new software and get this:

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 kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg49 (mac@aphex.internal.empeg.com) (gcc versi
on 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #130 Mon Oct 22 18:52:07 BST 2001
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30103093)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k 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)
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
Signature is 206f6972 'rio '
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004f80).
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...
Probing primary interface...
hda: FTJHTRU MHL2300@T, ATA DISK drive
hda: FTJHTRU MHL2300@T, ATA DISK drive
hda: FTJHTRU MHL2300@T, ATA DISK drive
hda: FTJHTRU MHL2300@T, ATA DISK drive
hda: FTJHTRU MHL2300@T, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FTJHTRU MHL2300@T, 7935MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=16382/16/62
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3348
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:8) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:0b MAC 00:02:d6:26:0c:15
Partition check:
hda: unknown partition table
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


what does that mean?

If it does this repeatedly (like, every time), then it means your partition table is toast. For most folks, that would also mean it's time to reinitialize the drive from scratch, and then re-download (or "re-upload" for windows users ) all the tunes again.

Cheers

Don't let Mark panic you. Usually this error is caused by cable problems. Please contact carsupport@riohome.com for help.

I got the same thing recently, it recognizes the hard drives, however it complains about reading the superblock, haven't heard back from support yet, here's my hyperterminal session.

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50 (mac@aphex.internal.empeg.com) (gcc versi
on 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #7 Fri Feb 8 18:45:38 GMT 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, serial number 30102380)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k 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)
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
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004a80).
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...
hdb: IC25N030ATDA04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IC25N030ATDA04-0, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IC25N030ATDA04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
hdb: IC25N030ATDA04-0, 28615MB w/1806kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
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:d7:26:09:4
c
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > 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...XT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

>    Partition check: 

>    hda: hda1 < > hda2 hda3 hda4 

>    hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 

..

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

03:05 is kernel-speak for /dev/hda5, which you may notice is missing from the partition check line for hda -- hda5 and hda6 should normally appear between the angle brackets < >.

So this would imply a corrupt or improperly constructed boot sector (partition table) on the drive.

If your two drives are 100% identical, and were both properly made with the same version of player software/upgrade/whatever, then you might be able to fix it by simply copying the boot sector from the second drive (hdb) to the first drive (hda).

I will not include instructions here for that, lest too many fools blow away their music collections.

Cheers

EDIT: your two drive are NOT 100% identical.. did you bugger it up the master/slave or drive to drive copies?

-ml

Actually, you may also be able to fix it (maybe) by reapplying an empeg upgrade, say the latest v2beta11 or v1.03 .upgrade file.

-ml

hmmm, well I'm not sure what all changed, here's a list of the events leading up to when I knew it was screwed.

it was in the car, everything was good, took it inside put on another new boot animation (I don't remember if it fully booted or if I pulled the power after I saw the boot animation) then took it to the car, while walking to the car, the strap on my case broke and fell to the ground, only from my hip into the grass, I think that the laptop hit first, the empeg didn't actually physically hit the ground, only the G shock. put it in the car, then it was stuck at boot logo.

took it iside got the shell messages, re-applied the beta-11 upgrade hoping to fix it, upgrade went ok, didn't fix it though. also, as you can imagine I am unable to get to a shell prompt within the empeg either, it's really no big deal for me to format and wipe the disks to rebuild the partitions correctly (it's only time) but I wanted to make sure that I couldn't just replace the cable if that was the problem so I wouldn't have to go through all the hassle.

still waiting on support though.

seems to me that it probably isn't the cable since it does recognize the drives alright, it just can't see the partitions or read the superblock on hda.

is it possible that I made the boot animation too long and it overwrote something? I don't remember how many frames it was exactly but I could figure out if that was even a remote possibility.

if a disk builder to wipe out the disks and a re-upgrade and re-sync would fix it, then I'll start tonight, but I would have rather avoided it if it was only the cable, doesn't sound like it though.

eli

EDIT: yeah the two drives are not identical, I did the drive upgrade as per the instructions, and everything has been running great for a long while with both drives in there, slave/masters are proper. maybe some of the steps I listed up to the fault will help.

if you dropped it...did you make sure the cable is plugged in completely and securly?

The boot animation will not affect any of this -- might cause it to fail to load the kernel, but I believe JEmplode currently limits animations to 64KB or less -- way to small to even touch the kernel.

-ml

yep, I reseated the cable, no result, tried plugging in only one drive, no result. I wish support would get back to me, because if it's just a matter of putting on a disk builder and re-downloading all the music, then I could have had that done this weekend.

eli

w00t!!! don't have a clue what happened, but I decided to try to put on the .upgrade file again, and now it works, not sure why it still wouldn't see the partitions after the first time I upgraded but oh well, this would have been nice to gotten taken care of when it happened on friday, before my 5 hour drive to dallas, and my 5 hour drive from dallas, oh well, it works now, and the laptop provided music for about 4 hours of the trip.

eli