I went in and removed the journal and ran fsck. Because of the journal change, it did a full check on both drives, but passed with no problem. If I add the ext3 kernel back on, even without having ext3 partitions, this is what I see:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
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-empeg51-kernel2.2.17-ext3-hijack-v288 (mcomb@grovepc) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Mon Jul 29 21:12:59 PDT 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 40103965)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14960k/16M available (1032k code, 20k reserved, 368k 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)
IrCOMM protocol (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 20706d65 'emp '
Found custom animation at offset 0x9a38c
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 d0005500).
empeg RDS driverinitialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empegsinglechannel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISKdrive
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache,CHS=58140/16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chipid/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TPMEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:0f:7d
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3hdb4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk...|./.-.\.|./.-.\.|./.-.\.|./.-.\.|./.-.\.done.
ext3: No journal on filesystem on 01:00
EXT3-fs: get root inode failed
VFS:Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...ext3: No journal on filesystem on03:05
EXT3-fs: get root inode failed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying tounmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19changing mount type for:/dev/hda4

ext3:Nojournal on filesystem on 03:04
EXT3-fs: get root inode failed
ext3 mount of /dev/hda4 failed falling back toext2.
Mounting second music parchanging mount type for:/dev/hdc4
tition
ext3: No journal on filesystem on 03:44
EXT3-fs: get rootinode failed
ext3 mount of /dev/hdc4 failed falling back to ext2.
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting secondmusic partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
Usingnon-standard cache size 118 (adjustment 16)
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
hda:lost interrupt
hda: status error: status=0x58
hda: drive not ready for command
hda: status error: status=0x58
hda:drive not ready for command
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset:success

Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4076d000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N2100
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0xf080
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TWaiting for Daddy - Sam ...
serial_notify_thread.cpp:119:@@ AMichael Kamen
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ GSoundtrack
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N2100
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0xf080
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TWaiting for Daddy - Sam ...
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ AMichael Kamen
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ GSoundtrack
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #f080 0:00:13
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S1
! mp3_decoder.cpp :1049:Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 311099,error=0xc0044000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #f080 0:00:14


When the IDE errors are popping up, the boot screen shows the loading of each player component. It typicially freezes there on Loading Visuals or the database until the ide reset appears above. Working around with the player ling enough, and similar errors appear. The player ran for 20 hours playing with the normal Beta 13 Hijack kernel. During that time, I also did some minor drive writes to both, and never saw a single error.