Wow, two Empegs go on the same day (Bill's also on the 20th).

I believe I'm running 2 beta 13, though my emplode is 2.0.14.0 (not sure that means anything). Also running Hijack 4.17. Had my empeg for 2.5 years now, have had the no hard disk message several times. Recrimped the connector last year and I've been fine since. On Monday, the player was working fine all day, then I get back in the truck, and it won't boot, and nothing's worked since. Opened her up and the main connector needed crimping, but that didn't help, either. One of the pads on the connector at the motherboard almost looks like it never had solder on top of it. But there is no wiggling that I can tell. I rebooted with pressure on the main connector, and nothing different. Any help is appreciated. I'll be gone over the weekend, so I'll let the great minds here stew...



Here's the serial boot ( it just stops mid-line at different points each boot, HT doesn't recognize any keypresses, either). Apparently there is a bad sector on the drive, but I'm not positive what to do now. I can't drop to the shell prompt for some reason.

Okay, there was some funny stuff going on copying and pasting from hyperterminal, so I kept rebooting, trying to get a good log. Basically, over 15 or 20 boots, I was getting a lot of read_intr status= 0x59 and 0x1 errors. Bad sector....3:00 sector 0, I believe. Trying to copy, a lot of the lines were getting mixed around, a lot of "drive1/fids", etc. lines were being inserted in random spots. Then this happens...

Well damn. She just booted for the first time in about 20. So here's that log (weird things missing and inserted in it, too.):


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])s recommendedoting the kerne
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
/drive1/fid
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)ffff, read e91ba9f0
P
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0
03:05: rw=0, wa

e000 v1.040 Corp./dr
Copying kernel.../
dev 03:05 blksi
Calling linux kernel...=2 size=1024 count=1
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kernesuperayer (hardware revision 9, se

al number 30102917) 16MB DRAM
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v417 ([email protected]) (gcc version0/fi
/
Command line: mem=16mdrive0/fids/1e461s/
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sat Jan 15 19:12:21 EST 2005lay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 reive0/
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIXempeg dsp mixer initialised
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2sp initialised1 -> /drive0
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039g audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
empeg remote control/panel butt
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCPs/1e630/fids/e940 -> /drive0
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
empeg usb
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
empeg state support init
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
Probing primary interface...ialised
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UARTTA DISK driveds/1e6c1 -> /drive0/fids/1e6c1
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on i
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
/dri

empeg dsp initialised194.c:v0.12 03/06/96
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
/drive1/f
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012/
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005e80).
/drive1/fids/f8c1 ->
hda:
empeg RDS driver initialised
/drive1
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)1ive1/fids/f
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks o

smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is r

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:0b:6
/drive1/
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 fi
5
Partition check:ve1/fid
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda417-empeg52-hijack-v417 ([email protected])
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).drive1/fid
/drive1/f
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601):s/1e880 -> /drive0/fids/
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.ad e91
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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

Empire: Version 0.40 starting...
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.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000
IrDA: Registered device irda0

Okay, now it's dead again:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected]). done.guins of Linux!
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,ed

e000 v1.04/drive1/fi
Copying ker
VFS: Mount
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!0.03 (19980601)
Uncompressing Linux......
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VF

e000 v1.04oot (ext2
Copying kernel...ly.s/1ea70ive0/fi
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerneux
Trying to unmount old root ... okayack-v417 ([email protected]) (gcc versi
Freei
l.un
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v417 ([email protected]) (gcc version


/drive1/
2.95.3 20010315 (re
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sat Jan 15 19:12:21 EST 2005
/drive1/fids/1ea80
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 re

Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society N
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
/dri
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCPLinux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)(irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)ive0/fids/1eb60
Starting kswapd v 1.58050000 (irq = 17) is
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS02 at 0xf80300
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART30 -> /drive0/fids/fd30ids/6
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 206f6972
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
empeg
empeg dsp initialisedBD12 id 1012s/1ec00 -
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised./88c1 (save to d0005c00).
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012/drive1/fids/fd
/drive1/f
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005f80).
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first bo
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
Probing primary interface...
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, 57231MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=7296/255/63
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:d7:26:0b:6
5
Partition check:
hda:hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
unable to read partition table
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...attempt to access beyond end of device
03:05: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read super

And another failed boot (the condensed version):

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:0b:6/drive1/f
Checking for extra DRAM:s/1e880 -> /drive0/fids/
5
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
ide0: reset: success
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
unable to read partition table
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...attempt to access beyond end of device
03:05: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable

First off, either use a terminal program other than HyperTerminal or use HyperTerminal's text capture feature instead of a copy-and-paste from the scrollback. Those corrupted logs are a bear to read. (You know, HyperTerminal's only been a part of Windows for 10 years now. Maybe it's time to fix those bugs.)

That said, the read_intr messages point definitively to a hardware problem. Go through the "No hard disk found" FAQ and see if any of those troubleshooting methods help.

Okay, given that it *does* boot successfully once in a while, the boot drive is fine, and so is the RAM. So that leaves mechanical issues with the cabling and/or IDE header as pretty much the only real possibilities.

Cheers

Okay, weekend is over, thanks for the suggestions so far. I opened up the Empeg again today. I removed the IDE cable, recrimped the connectors. Tried re-booting, no disk found. Rebooted with main connector being pressured into the motherboard, same. Connected the drive to the end of the cable, same deal. Again, there are a couple of pads (various locations) on the motherboard connector that show very little solder on the top of the pads. Wiggling the connector doesn't show any obvious signs of loose pads. So because it booted once, there's not a possibility that it is not a bad hard drive? Or a hard drive going bad?

How about a clean boot log to look at?


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 kernel.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v417 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sat Jan 15 19:12:21 EST 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102917) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (984k code, 20k reserved, 368k 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 206f6972 'rio '
Found custom animation at offset 0x98b7c
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
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 d0004280).
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...
Probing primary interface...
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT PL, 57231MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=7296/255/63
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:d7:26:0b:65
Partition check:
hda:hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
ide0: reset: success
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x01
hda: read_intr: status=0x59
hda: read_intr: error=0x40
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
unable to read partition table
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump... attempt to access beyond end of device
03:05: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05