Hi Mark,

I also noticed something else that was strange too. It performed the "commanded re-build" differently than I have seen with the IDE drive. Could be wrong, but don't remember the "968 line item".

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Code:
  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
! tags.cpp          :  61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul  5 2004
Vcb: 0x4086d000
q
Dead temp.sensor, status=0x00
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Player exited normally: 0
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# mount -n -o remount,rw,nocheck /drive0
empeg:/empeg/bin# logout
Shell exit
Starting player
Timezone: GB
Hijack: intercepting config.ini


! tags.cpp          :  61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
! fidfile_disk.cpp  : 968:Why did write return zero for offset=0, size=0?
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul  5 2004
Vcb: 0x4086d000
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Tried to remount -ro /dev/hda4 but got error 16
Remounting partitions read-only failed (aiee!)
Abnormal player termination
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# rom
empeg:/empeg/bin# exit
logout
Shell exit
Starting player
Timezone: GB
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul  5 2004
Vcb: 0x4086d000

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I tried to obtain more information of what was going on so I set up one desktop as an RS-232 serial port with a HyperTerm and another desktop (my Simulation System) as an Ethernet Emplode system. Two separate computers, they don't share, no sharing violations.

I prepared a fresh load on a 500 GB SATA Interfaced drive, opened the HyperTerm computer system to record whatever it would report. I opened Emplode on the Ethernet system, selected the 60 MB test file, and performed a sync. Since the 250 GB drive was already prepped and was able to load a 16.5 GB session, I just performed the Emplode session the same as the 500 GB SATA drive.


With the 500 GB Drive it reports through the Serial port the following:
Code:
Unable to find swap-space signature
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.

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The 250 GB IDE drive reports the following for the same file and operation:

Code:
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 player
Timezone: GB
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

Dead temp.sensor, status=0x00
  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul  5 2004
Vcb: 0x4086d000

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They have different responses as you can see with Swap Space.


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I installed the 2 each 250 GB IDE Drives in the system to see if there was a difference. There is a big difference in the SWAP FILE SIZE, 16 MB vs. 64 MB. I thought we had that fixed at one time, did we break it with the new v.508 Big_Disk_Builder code? The drives with the 64 MB Swap File have v.508 hijack on them and the 16 MB version does too. Are there two different versions of the builder? One that builds 16 MB and one that builds 64 MB that go with v.508? See below:

Code:
Adding Swap: 64224k 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.
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/
hdc4 is mounted.
! playerdb.cpp      : 182:Failed to build dynamic database (status=0xc004401a).
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Restart code received
Starting player
Timezone: GB
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
! tags.cpp          :  61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

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I know there is another problem going on during this experiment and I may have to reload the database if a forced rebuilding of the database and tags doesn't work. I really hope not, it was my master set.


By the way, this is the /proc/meminfo for the 2 each 250 GB IDE drives in the same system if this helps any:

Code:
empeg:/empeg/bin# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  15302656  5685248  9617408  1257472   577536  3747840
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:     14944 kB
MemFree:       9392 kB
MemShared:     1228 kB
Buffers:        564 kB
Cached:        3660 kB
SwapTotal:        0 kB
SwapFree:         0 kB
empeg:/empeg/bin#

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This is the boot for the 2 each 250 GB IDE drives (note v.508)

Code:
e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg55-hijack-v508 ([email protected]) (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 40103852) 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'
Found custom animation at offset 0x9c388
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
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 d0004700).
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 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
hdb: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0001
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0001
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0001
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0001
hda: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, 238475MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, LBA48
hdb: WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0, 238475MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, LBA48
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:0f:0
c
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > 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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount 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 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: GB
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
kftpd: listening on port 21
khttpd: listening on port 80
  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Dead temp.sensor, status=0x00

Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul  5 2004
Vcb: 0x4086d000

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This is the partition table for the 2 each 250 GB IDE Drives:

Code:
empeg:/empeg/bin# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1        11     88326    5  Extended
/dev/hda2            12        16     40162+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            17        21     40162+  10  OPUS
/dev/hda4            22     30401 244027350   83  Linux
/dev/hda5   *         1         3     24034+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6             4        11     64228+  82  Linux swap
empeg:/empeg/bin#

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If you look at the earlier Partition Table dumps for the v.508 builder, they show that it only builds a 16 MB Swap File. Could be a Swap File size issue.

What do you think?


Thanks,

Ross


Edited by wfaulk (21/03/2011 14:35)
Edit Reason: put empeg output inside code tags; hopefully made it a little more readable
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