Hi there,

i bought a riocar rd100-10 in november last year. Unfortunately it did not work and due to sonicblues bankruptcy i never got it repaired under warranty. Now i have had this wonderfull piece of high-tech sitting on the shelf for months and i think it's time to get this *I§%&*# thing working.

The systems hangs during the boot process and doesn't startup. At the serial console it shows several ide errors (hda not ready, hda interrupt lost, hda status timeout). I have double and tripple checked everything according to the riocar.org FAQ. The system still 'hangs' whenever (nearly, I had it booting up completly 2 or 3 times) it tries to access the hard drive which happens also during the update process,
error message: "Bad pump response to device select occurred during
stage 0x25".

I have already tried a different harddrive and a new harddrive cable.

Does anybody know a repair facility for riocars?

regards,
Marty