Hello everyone:
I have just purchased a used Empeg Mark-II, and I'm having a problem using either Emplode or Jemplode on it. Currently, I have firmware version 2.01 Developer installed with Hijack installed from v476.hijack.mk2.zImage, and Emplode version 2.0 installed on my Windows XP pc. I have also followed the directions on the empeg FAQ about replacing the hard drive, and I have replaced the stock hard drive with a 120GB drive. When initializing this drive, I used the builder_bigdisk.upgrade file.
When I start Emplode, it searches for my Empeg, and is always able to find it (I have tried connecting 3 different ways - COM port, USB port, and crossover cable, which is what I would prefer to use, since it is supposedly faster.) Once I select my Empeg on the Select Player screen, I see messages that read "Remounting Disks" then "Waiting". Once it says "Waiting", the details show that it is processing the "Rebuilding Database" task, with a status of "Executing". Once Emplode reaches this stage, it crashes, and gives me the dreaded "Rio emplode has encountered a problem and needs to close" message. I get this result no matter how I hook up my Empeg.
When I try the same thing using Jemplode v69, my device is listed (as long as it's hooked up via either Ethernet or USB), and it looks like it's working fine, until it gets to the Rebooting Player stage. When this happens, the Empeg reboots, but Jemplode doesn't seem to acknowledge the fact that the Empeg has rebooted. When Jemplode gets stuck at this stage, I have tried rebooting several times via my Hijack menu, but with no luck.
I have also repeated all of these steps using version 2.0 of the firmware, but I still get all the same results.
I have also attached my Hyperterminal bootlog at the bottom of this post, in case that helps.
Does anyone know what I can do to get music onto my Empeg?
Thanks in advance!
Boot Log:
empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 (
[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 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v464 (
[email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Oct 27 01:00:29 EDT 2006
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c0c00000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 80000399) 12MB DRAM
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10952k/12M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 324k 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 20736f62 'bos '
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
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 d0005200).
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 0xff80
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xff80
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa80
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5580
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xff80
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xff80
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaa80
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5580
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xffff
hda: TOSHIBA MK1234GAX, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: TOSHIBA MK1234GAX, 114473MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63
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:d7:10:01:8f
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...ot: old root haokay
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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x4054d000