Hi everyone

I want to use my Empeg as image storage for pictures taken with my digital camera. I bought a Compactflash to IDE converter ( CF-IDE-44 from http://www.flashmemory.com.au/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=3&cat=FlashMemory+Disk+Drives), and I am now trying to get my Empeg to recognise an inserted compactflashcard as slave HDD at boot time.

My problem is, that during boot the Empeg only detects the flashcard (hdb) but NOT my master HDD (hda).
When i eject the compactflash card from the converter and boot again, the Empeg detects the HDD (hda) and continues booting.

It seems to me as if the insertion of the compactflashcard in the converter blocks the detection of my master harddrive ?

The compactflash(8Mb) comes straight from the digital camera and is FAT formatted - but this should not stop the two "HDD"s from being correctly detected at boot ?

Here is the disk detection part of the boot sequence WITH a compactflash card inserted in the converter:

empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hdb: SanDisk SDCFB-8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SanDisk SDCFB-8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SanDisk SDCFB-8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SanDisk SDCFB-8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SanDisk SDCFB-8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SanDisk SDCFB-8, ATA DISK drive
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hdb: SanDisk SDCFB-8, 7MB w/1kB Cache, CHS=245/2/32
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:d7:22:07:60
Partition check:
hdb: hdb1
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:05
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05


And here is the same part without the flashcard inserted:

empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: TOSHIBA MK6014MAP, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK6014MAP, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK6014MAP, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK6014MAP, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK6014MAP, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK6014MAP, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: TOSHIBA MK6014MAP, 5729MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=12416/15/63
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:d7:22:07:60
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [776/240/63] hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
.....


My Empeg is a MkIIa running the 2.00b11 firmware with Hijack 243

Does anyone have an idea of what might be wrong ?

Regards
Nicolai