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So sometimes the hard drive works (second log), and sometimes not (first log).

Time to check out the cable and connections.


I unplugged and reconnected the cables but still got the IDE failure tests in the log.
By coincidence I upgraded to hijack 461 from 448 and the IDE failures are gone.I downgraded back to 448 to see if failure notice was still there and it was.Then upgraded back to 461 and they were gone.
Does that mean my drive is good or maybe on its way out?

version 448 log

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 kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v448 ([email protected]) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Thu Mar 16 19:43:10 EST 2006
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30103118) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k 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 0x99380
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
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 d0005c80).
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 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xbbc4 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xbbc4 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xbbc4 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xbbc4 -- FAILED
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
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:d7:26:0c:2
e
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.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
Using non-standard cache size 124 (adjustment 10)
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x407cd000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N145
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x4cb0
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TDaughter
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ APearl Jam
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ GAlternative
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4cb0 0:01:17
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S0


version 461 log

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 kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v461 ([email protected]) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Thu Jun 8 15:00:28 EDT 2006
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 30103118) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k 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 0x99380
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
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 d0005d80).
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 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xbbc4
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xbbc4
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xbbc4
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xbbc4
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
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:d7:26:0c:2
e
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.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
Using non-standard cache size 124 (adjustment 10)
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x407cd000
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MIKE 80Gb RIO