I have searched through the FAQ and posts here but haven't found a specific answer to this question. I have been having off and on problems with my hard drive not reading properly ever since I owned the Empeg but it hasn't been a major deal until now. Usually it was a bad cable or drive and I would send it back to the UK to be massaged and it would come back working fine. NOw that I can't do that, I am running into the following issue and short of replacing the hard drive (which I don't want to do) I can't see an easy way to fix it. Thus I turn to you.

Basically, when I went to sync music today, the process failed and my second drive (hdb) dropped from the Empeg's site. When I boot up now, this is what I get through the seriel connection:


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-v330 (root@ibbm) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Tue Apr 8 19:02:00 EDT 2003
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 90000784)
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10940k/12M available (996k code, 20k reserved, 328k 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)
IrCOMM protocol (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=1, ID=0
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 d0004900).
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-220, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHR2020AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHR2020AT, 19077MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
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:d7:12:03:10

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 init empeg 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
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,68)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 18671
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,68)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 19696

After a few of those I get

EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,68)): trunc_indirect: Read failure, inode=139, block=-1342103153

Remounting filesystem read-only

EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,68)): trunc_indirect: Read failure, inode=139, block=-1793708560
Remounting filesystem read-only
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=1949980067, limit=19451880
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=-197503582 sector=-395007164 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,68)): trunc_indirect: Read failure, inode=139, block=-197503582
Remounting filesystem read-only
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=701845941, limit=19451880
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=701845940 sector=1403691880 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,68)): trunc_indirect: Read failure, inode=139, block=701845940
Remounting filesystem read-only
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=1909346640, limit=19451880
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=1909346639 sector=-476274018 size=1024 count=1

Then it goes back to

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,68)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 73203
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,68)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 73203
Untill eventually it just stops and hangs.

I have not tried this in the car which sometimes corrects this problem but every connection attemp through AC power seems to be resulting in this. I also opened her up to make sure all mount points and connections are solid which they are. Am I through or is there hope?

Greg

The hard drive seems to be behaving, but the filesystem data structures are corrupted. If you try another SYNC from Emplode, then it may do a proper filesystem check and fix the problem. Be prepared to wait an hour or more for it to do it's thing, though

The FAQ undoubtedly has more info, but try the simple SYNC again first.

-ml

Just to clarify, when the system it hangs on "Building music database" (in the display) and on the last "EXT2-fs warning . . . " (In Terminal) it never gets to a point where Emplode will recognize it for a SYNC. I only let it hang for a couple of minutes so it may be doing something but I don't hear any drives spin or see any action in the terminal screen. I will run it now for an hour+ on the hang but my feeling is that it is frozen trying to do something. I can reach the pump from boot but I don't think that will do anything.
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Addemndum - I am flashing the kernel and putting in the developers image again whihc is getting me around this problem. Thank you for you help!!!!
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Addemndum - After I replaced the kernel with 2.0 developers, I am still running into the same problem. Delving into the FAQ again for some more help.

Oh well, I suppose if it never gets running well enough to do a "sync", then you'll have to consult the FAQ for the exact instructions on fixing the filesystems. That's what you need to do at this point.

Cheers

That would be this FAQ.

However, I can not get to a shell prompt to issue the fix the FAQ suggests. If I try to do a 'q'(enter) at boot it just ignores it and freezes at the stop point. I can apply a new kernel to the system but I come up with the same problem. I can get to the pump prompt but I don't think I can issue shell commands there. Can I?

The pump prompt is not a shell prompt.

Try hitting Ctrl-C instead of just q.

And if that fails, then reapply one of the developer upgrades (v2.00 final is okay) to restore the more critical files. Might even fix the whole deal in one go.

Again, the BBS comes through with flying colors. I used cntr-C to get into the prompt, the instructions from the FAQ to fix the drive, and I am doing a simple sync through Emplode to fix the database.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who helped out and got me back on my feet.

Greg