I just upgraded to dual drives. That seemed to go fine. It works. However, each time I restart the empeg, the playlist that loads isn't the one I was on when I turned it off. The one it defaults to is just blank [-/-] 0:00. I don't believe I have any blank playlists.

I'm not sure what "error 19" means, but I'm including this:
...
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...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
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1485 Jul 25 2005
Vcb: 0x4041a000

The error 19 message is not an error at all and has nothing to do with it.

Some possible causes:

1. Messed up scratch partition.

2. Playlist files on second drive that's not being recognized.

3. Misc disk problems.

4. Database too large for player's memory and scratch partition.

Most of these problems have slightly different symptoms than the one you are reporting. Of all the things I just linked, number 1 seems the most likely.

When you upgraded the drives, what were the drive sizes, and are you sure that they are both partitioned and formatted properly? Does emplode report the expected amount of free space, or something different?

Also, please give us a full boot log instead of just that snippet. The snippet you showed doesn't tell us about which drives it's detecting.

Both drives show their space appropriately. They are the same basic drive other than they were manufactured two months apart in different countries. Here is a fresh boot:


empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])S: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).ion 0x3349
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,man ([email protected]
Press Ct
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the



Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne............................ done, booting the kerne Ctrl-A to enter pump...tton
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Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg55 (peter@tatu) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
pump>
pump> eh?
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(release)) #15 Mon Jul 25 18:52:48 BST 2005(peter@tatu) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
empeg sta
Checking for extra DRAM:
c0c00000: wrote ffffffff, read 9afffff0 up
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.g by UNIFIXe: mem=12m
ide_
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 80000234)

ide_data_test
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIXr Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)h table en
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2e 0x0000 r
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( re
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0y UNIFIXff read 0xffff
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhas

Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
empeg dsp i
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UARTio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0 0xf801000
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UARTton initialised. at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a S
Signature is ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
empeg display initialised.
emp
empeg dsp audio initialised2 id


hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.00, ATA DISK drive
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012rive
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004c00).
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
empeg RDS driver initialisedIBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK dr
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size, CHS=23392/16/63
empeg single channel IDEeg-flash driver initiali
Probing primary interface...
smc chip id/revision 0x
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive94.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman
hdb: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive



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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.
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... 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
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1485 Jul 25 2005
Vcb: 0x4041a000

OK, this just in: The only playlist that has this issue is the root playlist, the one that has all songs in it. If I choose a custom playlist, it reboots just fine.

That probably means that you root playlist has more tracks than the player can handle. There is a workaround for this that I can't find at the moment. Someone else will come along soon enough to enlighten both of us.

It is the maxfid patch. I would like to it, but I am too lazy to search for it at the moment...

Yeah, that's number 4 in my list. How many tracks are in your root playlist?

Is it possible that you have multiple trees in the playlist that point to the same songs, and you haven't ignore-as-childed some of them?

For example, do you have one playlist called "artists", and one playlist called "albums", both in the root, and they all link the same songs? That would make your root playlist twice the size of the total number of songs on your player. In that example, to solve the problem, simply tag one of those two playlists with the "ignore as child" tag.

What is the total number of songs in your player?

NOTE: Number 1 in my list still might apply. I was getting that problem before, and it only happened when I tried to initiate a large playlist. Small playlists wouldn't run up against the corruption on my scratch partition, only large ones would.

DO NOT TRY THE MAXFID PATCH until you have tried doing the repair steps I linked in number 1 above.

Also: Don't use copy and paste when you grab your boot log from Hyperterminal. Hyperterminal has a bug that messes up the text when you use the clipboard. Use the CAPTURE TEXT feature instead. Your boot log looks mostly normal, though (trying to peer through the scrambled text at it).

about 3400 songs in there.
Kids screaming and beating on eachother...gotta go.

3400 songs is not going to require the maxfid patch. You would need to be generating playlists in the neighborhood of 10,000 to 20,000 songs before you would need that, if I understand correctly.

So your problem has nothing to do with maxfid unless a root non-shuffled playlist about 4x self-referential.

I'm thinking you need to do the first procedure I linked. Number one in my list above.

Regarding your kids: Children's Chewable Valium.

I definitely gotta find me some Kidstoned!

-jk