Well, I'm back again posting on the forum...

I'm still having problems with the memory violation error that makes my Empeg 2a go into a continual loop. This is the result of a serial dump:

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 v1.03
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux................................... done, booting the kernel.

Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg43 ([email protected]) (gcc versi
on 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #213 Sat Jun 23 16:35:13 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 10102100)
Command line: mem=16m temp=53
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15064k/16M available (960k code, 20k reserved, 332k data, 8k 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 d0004100).
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...
hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, 19077MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
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:d7:22:08:3
4
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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: 8k initinit: memory violation at pc=0x4000247c, lr
=0xbffffccc (bad address=0x6ffd81cc, code 0)
pc : [<4000247c>] lr : [<bffffccc>]
sp : bffffc68 ip : 4001df48 fp : bfffff1c
r10: 4001d858 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000000
r7 : 00000000 r6 : 00013764 r5 : 00013788 r4 : 00013798
r3 : 0000007c r2 : ebff6140 r1 : 40000000 r0 : 00013774
Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C0FAD17D Table: C0FAD17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<400023e0>] from [<40002358>]
r10 = 00000000 r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 00000000 r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
init: memory violation at pc=0x4000247c, lr=0xbffffccc (bad address=0x6ffd81cc,
code 0)
pc : [<4000247c>] lr : [<bffffccc>]
sp : bffffc68 ip : 4001df48 fp : bfffff1c
r10: 4001d858 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000000
r7 : 00000000 r6 : 00013764 r5 : 00013788 r4 : 00013798
r3 : 0000007c r2 : ebff6140 r1 : 40000000 r0 : 00013774
Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C0FAD17D Table: C0FAD17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<400023e0>] from [<40002358>]
r10 = 00000000 r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 00000000 r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000


This last error (after the init: memory violation ) repeats itself in a loop forever, thus jamming the player at the boot screen. I had this exact same problem running the b2.11, so I downgraded the version to 1.03. Didn't help the problem in the slightest. The memory check turned out fine:

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...
0000 empeg-car (issue9) board test version 0.05 <[email protected]>
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 TOSHIBA MK2018GAS
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 49
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



I've done some searching on the forum, and some people apparently solved this problem by deleting a bad playlist or something like that. I don't know how to get into the shell prompt, so I don't even know where to begin on this problem. I'd like to think that it's as simple as a bad drive cable, but the OS can see the HDD! Can anyone help me out?

-J