Greetings!

NO!!!!!

I just received my empeg after having it get stuck in customs for five days. Booted it up, and ... it shows a very nice logo. Nothing more.

I went into hyperterminal and received the same series of messages that Alex Lear (alear) received. See boot log at the bottom of this message. I then went in and ran the boot tests.

Well, there are two items that concern me. 1) cs4231 sometimes fails as seen in the test log (not always, only on occasion), 2) cannot find root device. From reading Alex's problem, it sounds like it might be a hard drive issue. Has anyone seen cs4231 errors before?

I have a bad feeling that I will have to send this back. I hope not to - I have already been hung up in customs once for a week. If there is any way I can repair it...

Note: I cannot hear the drives spin up. I don't know how quiet the drives are, but (if they are spinning) they are really quiet... This is a dual drive 36GB configuration (maybe 40gb???). I have also tried to load the 1.01 developer image and the 1.0 developer image - neither will load. Emp-upgrade cannot find the unit.

Help. I am also sending a copy of this posting to [email protected], just in case...

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1) bootlog

empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])
On DC power, quick boot

Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux.................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg35 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #19 Fri Aug 4 15:58:47 BST 2000
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 90000587)
Command line: mem=12m temp=38
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 11000k/12M available (968k code, 20k reserved, 292k data, 8k 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
empeg display initialised.
empeg dspaudio driver initialized
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg infra-red support initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004700).
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
Probing primary interface...
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:d7:12:02:4b
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: Cannot open root device 03:05
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

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2) testlog

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...
0000 empeg-car board test version 0.04
0100 ram test starting
0110 testing ic 1 (0-3mb, low word)
0120 testing ic 2 (0-3mb, high word)
0130 testing ic 3 (4-7mb, low word)
0140 testing ic 4 (4-7mb, high word)
0150 testing ic 19 (8-11mb, low word)
0160 testing ic 32 (8-11mb, high word)
01f0 ram test done
0200 ide detect
0210 command issued
0212 drq=1 but irq=0 (no drive connected?)
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 36
04f0 temperature ok
0500 usb detect
0510 usb rev 1012
05f0 usb ok
0600 ethernet detect
0610 ethernet rev 334b
06f0 ethernet ok
0700 cs4231 detect
0711 cs4231 not responding \* other boots report this as "0710 cs4231 rev a0 ; 07f0 cs4231 ok" *\
00f0 tests complete


Paul G.
Q# 15189
SN# 090000587
Status: D.O.A. - 29 Sept 2000 (36GB Green)