My friend's MK2 suddenly stopped booting. It plays the boot animation but never reaches the status messages before entering the player software. This is a single drive player, no upgrades, running 2.0 final developer and Hijack 464. The only catch, in one of his cars, it's mounted at a 90 degree angle, fascia pointed toward the sky.

Here's the bootlog, showing i2c difficulties, but the (both?) DSP initializes. After the "Partition check", the boot process slows dramatically and "hda: lost interrupt" messages seem to interrupt the log.

Is it a bad DSP like this and this? Or maybe the original hard drive is worn out? I tightened the IDE connectors which didn't help. Any thoughts? Thanks guys.


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 80000464) 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 67706d65 'empg'
Found custom animation at offset 0x9a78c
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
I2C write failed (fff, d223)
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
I2C write failed (927, 0)
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
I2C write failed (8f9, 90d)
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
I2C write failed (8f9, 90d)
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
I2C write failed (8ef, 800)
i2c: Failed to receive ACK for data!
i2c_write: device select failed
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 d0004c00).
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 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, 11513MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=23392/16/63
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:d7:10:01:d0
Partition check:
hda:hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda1 <hda: lost interrupt
hda5hda: lost interrupt
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...hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
hda: lost interrupt
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k inithda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt