Hello,
I have tried to upgrade the hard disks of my riocar Mark2 to a bigger hard disk, but the more I tried the bigger the trouble was. And now it's not possible to run the empeg even if I put back my old disk.
I have tried several disks from 10, 20, 40 to 80 GB but there is always no hard disk found. I also tried to change the IDE Cable of my old Mark 1 Player to the Mark 2 Player, but it helps nothing. The hard disk in my old player works fine and I could run the diskbuilderimage and the developerimage and everything is fine.
Could anybody see in my log what the problem is?
I'm trying now since Monday to reanimate my empeg!!!

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 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg55 (peter@tatu) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #20 Tue Jul 6 15:36:06 BST 2004
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read 9afffff0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101748)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k 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 67706d65 'empg'
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 d0005400).
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...
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, 8063MB w/1934kB Cache, CHS=16383/1
6/63
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:d7:22:06:d
4
Partition check:
hda: unknown partition table
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...fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

Thank you
Helli

Something is wrong with the hard disk cable. Quite possibly you may have pulled one of the connectors away from the ribbon cable, so that some of the wires are no longer making contact -- cable likely needs to be recrimped/replaced, or maybe just pushed more firmly into place at both ends.

Or, if it's not the cable, then the IDE header (the 44-pin thingie) on the Empeg main board is damaged. This is a common failure, quite repairable in the right hands.

-ml

I think I've checked the cable because I took the one of my old Mark1, and I think they are compatible with the only difference that the Mark 1 has only one connector. Is that right?.
I've looked also at the IDE header but I can't see any damage on that as discribed in the FAQ at Riocar.org

Maybe I have to take look at this by a professional!

Thank you for quick response

Helli

If you were to flash it with the latest Hijack kernel, then we'd see more information about the failure..

Now I've flashed it with the following Kernel
"empeg-voladj.v200b3.mk2.zImage"
I hope this is right, and here is the code
javascript: x()
Code
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 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg49 (eparrl@mcpc34) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991
024 (release)) #20 Thu Oct 18 08:26:05 EST 2001
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 10101748)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k 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 67706d65 'empg'
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 d0005500).
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...
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, 8063MB w/1934kB Cache, CHS=16383/1
6/63
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:d7:22:06:d
4
Partition check:
hda: unknown partition table
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...03:05: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to moun

Helli

again with the right hijack kernel...

javascript: x()
Code
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 10101748) 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 67706d65 'empg'
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 d0005600).
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 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0180
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xabaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xabaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xabaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xabaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xabaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xabaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, 8063MB w/1934kB Cache, CHS=16383/1
6/63
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:d7:22:06:d
4
Partition check:
hda: unknown partition table
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...fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

Greetings Helli

Ewww... It looks like one of your data lines is tied high - either from cable damage or header damage...

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xabaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555

Note that the last bit of the second byte is always a 1...

Inspect your cable very carefully, along with the header pins connecting to the main board. Also look for any damage on the cable or bent pins on the drive.

Thank you for your posts,

but I can't find any loose pins on the IDE Conector even under magnification.
I have built the HD with the diskbuilder image on my Mark 1 and installed the consumer image and everything is fine.
Afterwards I took the HD with the same IDE Cable from my Mark 1 to my Mark2 and the following things appear on the log.
Code:

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ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xabaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IC35O030ATEA14-0! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0100
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff

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I hope the cable is compatible and the partition of the HD is also compatible between Mark 1 and Mark 2 ?

Maybe I should take the Motherboard out of the empeg and look under the back side if something is loose or would it help using Contact spray? Or could I take a gauge to measure the pins?

I have no other ideas.

Helli

OK

I've contacted empegrepair.com

Thank you for all your help!

There will be sunshine after rain.....

Helli