Greatings

I have had simular problems with emplode prior to the disk upgrade, but never this persistant. Emplode stops transferring files and the program halts when syncronizing with the player.

This is what I have done to the player so far:

Took out the two IBM disks (20GB each)
Installed the two new WD600 disks (60GB each)
Installed the builder image
Installed the developer image on both disks

Everyting went well - no errors at all, thanks to the great FAQ.

Hooked the player up to my home network.
Fired up emplode and started moving files.

I did not do any copying from the old disk. ICE I can just mount the old disks and all will be back to normal (wich I'm close to be doing).

Emplode crashed after six, seven minutes. The error message is: 'the length of playlist..' etc. on all the files I try to transfer.

I did a physical check on the cables, the solderings, the cables again, and all seems to bee in working order.

I installed the builder image and the developer image one more time, with the same results - emplode halts.

I then installed the Hijack - the hope was that this would solve the problems. It did not.

Any thing I can do here?

win XP Pro SP2
XP firewall
2.0 kernel
2.0 emplode
Hijack v439

Start up log:

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v439 ([email protected]) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Thu Jul 28 13:21:31 EDT 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c0c00000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 90000824) 12MB DRAM
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10952k/12M available (984k 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)
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 ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1 hdb3 hdb4
empeg display initialised.K: ext2 filesystem found a
empeg dsp audio initialised
RAMD
empeg dsp mixer initialisedisk] into ram disk... done.
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0tem).
empeg
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...nge_root: old
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
o
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005b80).vice ide0(3,4)): ext2_chec
empeg RDS driver initialised
k_descripto
empeg power-pic driver initialised in group (block 0)!
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size-fs: group descriptors corrupted !
empeg single channel IDErong fs type, bad option
Probing primary interface...
hdb: WDC WD600UE-00HCT0, 57231MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=7296/255/63uch file or directory while determining whether /dev/
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
Linux ext2 fi
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])abel=
457088 inodes, 58500697 blocks

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:12:03:3
First data block=1
Block s
8e
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...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
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
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
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).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4054d000

There have been reports of problems with emplode when trying to move too many playlists to the player at once. (Remember that a windows folder counts as a playlist when putting fresh stuff on the player.) Try doing your uploads to the player in small batches. See if that works, then report back.

Still having problems syncronizing. If I move one or two albums at a time, it's usually ok. Moving three or more is a risky business. And emplode does not try to reload the files. I have to work my way through all the files and start syncing over again from where emplode stopped working.

Is it possible to have the empeg appeare as a drive letter in windows so I can just move the files that way?

I tried the FTP function, but that's not for moving music files, is it?

Okay. Something really weird is going on. You are doing your sync via ethernet today. Are you going through any kind of switch / hub? Can you try directly connecting the player to the computer via a crossover cable? Also, the player only supports 10Mbps - some switches / hubs / cards left to autonegotiate have a really hard time doing so.