I don't think the drive builder worked because when it hung, the empeg's display was blank and there was no drive activity. I think I know my problem - the empeg was not unplugged when I started the upgrade process.

By applying power after starting the upgrade, I was able to reload 2.01 and the player successfully restarted. All my songs were there and it was even paused in the middle of the last song it was playing, so that tells me I didn't erase the drives.

So, I tried reinstalling the drive builder image. The upgrade was successful, and I ran HyperTerminal right after it finished loading the image, and the player shows:

Code:
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 init+ /bin/mount -n /proc
+ log 'Builder image'
+ echo 'Builder image'
Buildeshow_message("Builder image")
r image
+ echo 'POPUP 9999 Builder image'
+ DRIVE1=
+ '[' -e /proc/ide/hdb -a -e /proc/ide/hdc ']'
+ '[' -e /proc/ide/hdb ']'
+ DRIVE1=hdb
+ '[' -e /proc/ide/hdc ']'
+ /bin/mount -n -t ext2 -o ro,nocheck /dev/hda4 /drive0
+ '[' -d /drive0/fids ']'
+ log 'Drives already built'
already built' show_mes
Drives already built
+ echo 'POPUP 9999 Drives already built'
+ exec /bin/bash --login
bash-2.01#
bash-2.01#


According to the upgrade instructions at

http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Drive_Upgrade&file=index

it says:

Quote:
If the disk drive wasn't blank, the formatter may complain by saying 'disk is already built'. If this happens, you must press the Enter key in Hyperterminal before it will begin erasing the disk.


but hitting Enter just brings another shell prompt (as shown above). So, the drive builder image is installed, but I am not sure what to type to make it actually go. Just pressing Enter doesn't seem to work with this builder.

I am using the LBA48 drive builder image here:

http://rtr.ca/bigdisk/

You raise a very good question why I am doing this with the drive builder, instead of just erasing all the songs through jEmplode. The reason is that I plan to upgrade from dual 30GB drives to a single 160GB drive, so I figured this would give me an opportunity to learn what I need to do for that to happen.

Thanks for your help,

- Chris
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1995 BMW M3 - 250GB RioCar