ouch... i just really hosed up my unit. rather than trying to figure out what i did, what is the easiest way to erase everything and resetting it to the state it was when shipped? hope there is something reasonably simple...

thanks
-ted

Hard Disk Builder Image followed by a normal software install.

thanks for the reply.

when i loaded the image, i fot a "drive(s) appear to be already built". subsequently, i reloaded the normal s/w, and got back to the state i was in before. did i do something wrong?

thx
-t

Did you select to continue anyway?

Yes, you have to open a terminal session and hit return to proceed from that point.

I never like to hear posts one day about problems with jEmplode followed the next day by "i've really hosed my unit".

well... i wish i would have known about the terminal part yesterday because i went through the process several times flawlessly... today when i tried it, i was able to get through the flash programming, but the RIO just started making clicking noises (i assume from the drive) when trying to select the pump partition. finally, it culminated with a "bad pump response in section 25"

how deep in it am i?

thx
-t

are you using jEmplode to upgrade? incidentally, the drive on one of my Empegs clicks too ... no idea what it is. seems to be working still though (it's been doing this for a while)

man you guys are quick... i've actually been using EMPLODE to upgrade. however, i said what the hell.. and opened up the RIO and pulled the drive bay out, and reseated the cables. guess what... looks like it's upgrading now. weird coincidence?? who knows. we'll see how it all pans out after i put the drive bay in.

thanks for all the help from everyone... did i ever mentioned what a cool crew of people are on this board?

-t

the latest...

i did the builder image... reformatted the drives (i stopped the performance test after about 10 minutes). loaded the latest s/w, and now i get a failure when doing the media check...

0xc0041016

well, at least im making forward progress..

-t

ok.. here's the output from hyperterminal.. i think im still hosed. oh well. gotta run to work. any help would be much appreciated
-t


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-empeg51 (mac@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #16 Wed Jul 24 18:19:54 BST 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 10101994)
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 206f6972 'rio '
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 d0004680).
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: IBM-DJSA-230, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DJSA-230, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-230, 28615MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
hdb: IBM-DJSA-230, 28615MB w/1874kB 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:d7:22:07:c
a
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...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_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
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group
64 not in group (block 3)!
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted !
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as ext2 but got error 22
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
No primary hard disk
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To ComplùStarti
ng player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000

Greetings!

I had this happen to me yesterday when I was working with a player. I re-applied the builder, reloaded the software and it worked fine. I do not know a "root cause" though.

Jesus, people, an entire thread and you never linked TedP to the FAQ entry on disk trouble or the Drive Upgrade Guide...

I thought that was your job?

I would have done, but I was too busy making short, easy posts to push my post count past 1,000...

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I thought that was your job?

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I was amazed it took him that long to post! Tony are you OK?

i found it on my own tony.. thanks anyways for the info anyways.

-t

I was amazed it took him that long to post! Tony are you OK?

Just fine. Once in a while, I have to go offline for maint... er... sleep.

Speaking of sleeping.... do you have the empeg mounted in your alcove?

Nah, I connect to it remotely through the Collective's ethernet link.