ok, i am back home and continuing to troubleshoot, being unable to do anything at work today...
machine is rebooted. for what its worth, its a P2-300 running XP, 192mb ram. nothing fancy. set up hyperterminal again, and cycled power to the unit, this is basically what i have been getting in hyperterminal:
In reply to:
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 kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50-hijack-v278 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.
30010315 (release)) #2 Fri Jun 28 14:10:24 EDT 2002
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102710)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14952k/16M available (1040k code, 20k reserved, 368k 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)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
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 0x98b60
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 d0005700).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHN2300AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHN2300AT, 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:d7:26:0a:96
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... hange_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
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Feb 7 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
q
i bolded the parts that seemed out of place / not normal to me, and the bit in red surely is an error that shouldnt be there... which may have something to do with what im experiencing?
it then goes on to say that it is setting the drives to read only anyway? then it allows for me to press 'q' to enter development mode but offers zero seconds to do this! i have held down 'q' as the empeg boots, this doesnt help, but it causes the empeg display to go horribly wrong - the VFD ends up with patterns of flashing lines and dots and 'shaded areas' that seem to change according to the different stages of bootup, but its completely illegible. to reset it, i have to cycle power (display then works again, if i dont hold down 'q' as it starts.
the second to last line of "Vcb: 0x4086d000" is the last line that comes from the empeg - the 'q' after that is me pressing 'q' then <enter>, and having nothing happen (no shell prompt comes up)
tony - i read the section you pointed out - those errors discussed there do not come up - but my problem is that even if they do, my player refuses to enter the shell prompt, so all the troubleshooting steps there are void anyway since i cannot punch in the commands anyway! no response from the empeg! the unit continues to remain in its permanent 'pause' mode (presumably if the drives were unable to be mounted, then it simply cant find the music, so it pauses??) and this renders the unit inoperable.
i can only guess that it MAY be terminal emulation settings in hyperterminal sending the wrong codes to the empeg? so when i hit 'q-enter', my empeg is not seeing it and so will not respond...?? the emulation is set to Auto-Detect, Telnet terminal ID is set to ANSI, Input Translation aka Host System Encoding Method is default set to Shift-JIS (as opposed to Standard-JIS), in other words, its all as default for when a new connection is made in Hyperterminal. and yes, i deleted that connection and recreated a new one, with no change in problem.
please tell me if there is anything else i am not explaining clearly - this is so distressing, i cant understand why it worked perfectly fine getting into the shell before, and now, it completely refuses... and whats the deal with "Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19" !???
*pulling hair out*
ANY help completely appreciated
PS: i dont think it is the serial port as i have used the same one since forever to do all the logo upgrades, flashing, etc etc...