Hi,

I loaded chunks of 10GB sometimes and it was a little slower.

Mark, is V3 alpha a good base for the larger drives? I thought that we required 2.01 Software.


BTW, I think I recently found a problem with the file system getting too large. I recently loaded an additional 10GB to one drive set which loaded fine - completed normally. That made around 455 GB on the system drive set. When I tried to load on another 2 GB, it didn't complete. While debugging through the serial port using Hyperterminal, I noticed that it can't find the Tags.

(! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

Emplode just croaks, after it starts to rebuild the database, remounts the partitions, stalls and dies with a core dump for debug.

It takes forever to build the database upon power boot. Normal time when powered on from front button panel.


From the FAQ...

1) I performed fscks of both drives, took forever, per the FAQ. No Change.

2) I tried to restore the partition from all of the alternate locations (24577 was best), took forever, per the FAQ. No Change

3) Re-installed Emplode. No Change.

4) Tried 3 other Empegs that hadn't had the additional 10GB installed - they all work fine.

5) I tried to use USB (pronounced Ugh), instead of Ethernet, same thing.

6) Drive cable is good, other drives worked.

I think I broke the database. I don't think that Emplode is hosed, I think it is a player thing.

Funny thing is after it completes building the database, it runs fine. It plays fine, still takes forever to build the database if it is powered off.

I want to remove some and add some more with this system. With this system, I can't even get past initialization in Emplode to play with it. I could clone the drive set from another of my RIOs, but, I am curious as to what happened.

I will probably dump the drives contents and start a new database image anyway.

It's a Mk2a, 16MB RAM, 244+244GB, Player Software car2_v2.01, Builder_Bigdisk_v10.


Serial Port output string:


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-empeg55-hijack-v505 ([email protected]) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #1 Wed Dec 31 11:10:05 EST 2008
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 v505 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 d0005d00).
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 0xdbfb
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xdbfb
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xdbfb
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xdbfb
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: MST7MDT
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
Using non-standard cache size 118 (bonus 0Mb, adjustment 16)
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Dead temp.sensor, status=0x00
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x4076d000


............ I performed a CTRL-C to Exit ................

Dead temp.sensor, status=0x00
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Abnormal player termination
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin#


It really just looks like the tags got hosed. Any ideas where to go from here?

Ross