Hey Everyone,

My 6 year old MKII is finally giving me problems that I can't solve. My player started freezing every once and a while over the past few days. I'm not sure if it was actually freezing, or just couldn't keep up with how fast I was FFing, but either way, it seemed to freeze a few times. The last time the player worked today, I had started the car and it said "Hard Disk Not Found". I pulled the player out and reinserted it and everything worked fine. Once I started the car again later tonight, all it will do is keep rebooting. Once it turns on, it sits on the player screen for a few seconds, then reboots. This happens in or out of the car. The only way to keep it from this constant reboot cycle is to unplug the drive. I tried reinstalling 2.0 developer, which seemed to install fine, but even after that, the problem continues.

Any thoughts? I'm running Vista, and I can't seem to get a copy of hyperterminal installed to eye the boot process.

Finally got hyperterm going...


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 kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg52 (rob@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #11 Tue Apr 1 18:49:59 BST 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 80000138)
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10968k/12M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 332k 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 67706d65 'empg'
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 d0005800).
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: HITACHI_DK23DA-40, ATA DISK drive
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-40, ATA DISK drive
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-40, ATA DISK drive
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-40, ATA DISK drive
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-40, ATA DISK drive
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-40, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-40, 38154MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63
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:d7:10:00:8
a
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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...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
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
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4054d000
player(18): memory violation at pc=0x02035784, lr=0x00000afe (bad address=0x5218
4294, code 2)
pc : [<02035784>] lr : [<00000afe>]
sp : be5ffbe4 ip : cccccccd fp : be5ffc0c
r10: 0218f160 r9 : 000062a8 r8 : 0218f15c
r7 : 000006f5 r6 : 02189820 r5 : 02b9f7a8 r4 : 0188017c
r3 : 5218428c r2 : 00018aa0 r1 : 00001109 r0 : 02174350
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: D038D17D Table: D038D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<02035718>] from [<020211e0>]
r10 = BE5FFD2C r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 02135800
r6 = 02135800 r5 = 02135800 r4 = 0218F090
Function entered at [<020211a8>] from [<0201fec4>]
r5 = 0218F090 r4 = 000006F5
Function entered at [<0201fe38>] from [<0201f31c>]
r8 = 021357F4 r7 = 0218F090 r6 = 0216F738 r5 = BE5FFC74
r4 = 0218F090
Function entered at [<0201f300>] from [<0201e588>]
r5 = 000006F5 r4 = 000028A1
Function entered at [<0201e4ec>] from [<02003f08>]
r8 = 0218EEB8 r7 = BE5FFD2C r6 = 0218EEB8 r5 = 00000000
r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003eec>] from [<02002c78>]
Function entered at [<02002aac>] from [<020037d0>]
r10 = 0218EF50 r9 = BE5FFD2C r8 = BE5FFD30 r7 = BE5FFD2C
r6 = 0218EEB8 r5 = 00000000 r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003574>] from [<020ad4f0>]
r10 = 020AD438 r9 = 0218EEB8 r8 = 0000280B r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000B r5 = 0218EEB8 r4 = BE5FFD64
Function entered at [<020ad438>] from [<020b4824>]
r5 = 0218EED0 r4 = BE5FFE40
Function entered at [<020b475c>] from [<020e9bbc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<020e8330>] from [<020b45a0>]
r8 = 0215630C r7 = 021562F8 r6 = 020AD438 r5 = 00000007
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020b44f0>] from [<020e9bbc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<00000020>] from [<bffffc3c>]
Function entered at [<0000fff4>] from [<000f0002>]
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000fff8
memmap = D038C000, pgd = c0b8c000
*pgd = d0395801, *pmd = d0395801, *pte = 00000000, *ppte = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 2
CPU: 0
pc : [<c00dfe2c>] lr : [<c0019670>]
sp : c0595f44 ip : c0595f00 fp : c0595f90
r10: 00000002 r9 : c0bb20e0 r8 : 0000000c
r7 : 00000000 r6 : 0000fff4 r5 : 000f0002 r4 : fffffffc
r3 : 60000013 r2 : c00fe1e4 r1 : 00000001 r0 : ffffffec
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment user
Control: D038D17D Table: D038D17D DAC: 00000015
Process player (pid: 18, stackpage=c0595000)
Stack:
c0595f20: c0019670 c00dfe2c 600000
13
c0595f40: ffffffff c0bb20f8 c0bb16a0 c0594000 c0595fb8 52184294 c0011948 00000a
fe
c0595f60: 52184294 00000002 c0595fb8 00000005 52184294 00000000 00000002 000062
a8
c0595f80: 0218f160 c0595fb4 c0595f94 c0011e80 c00116f8 c00fc978 02b9f7a8 021898
20
c0595fa0: 000006f5 0218f15c 00000000 c0595fb8 c000a008 c0011da8 02174350 000011
09
c0595fc0: 00018aa0 5218428c 0188017c 02b9f7a8 02189820 000006f5 0218f15c 000062
a8
c0595fe0: 0218f160 be5ffc0c cccccccd be5ffbe4 00000afe 02035784 20000010 ffffff
ff
Backtrace:
Function entered at [<c00116ec>] from [<c0011e80>]
r10 = 0218F160 r9 = 000062A8 r8 = 00000002 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 52184294 r5 = 00000005 r4 = C0595FB8
Function entered at [<c0011d9c>] from [<c000a008>]
r8 = 0218F15C r7 = 000006F5 r6 = 02189820 r5 = 02B9F7A8
r4 = C00FC978
Code: ebfce58c e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Abnormal player termination
Player received signal 11
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4054d000
player(32): memory violation at pc=0x02035784, lr=0x00000afe (bad address=0x5218
4294, code 2)
pc : [<02035784>] lr : [<00000afe>]
sp : be5ffbe4 ip : cccccccd fp : be5ffc0c
r10: 0218f160 r9 : 000062a8 r8 : 0218f15c
r7 : 000006f5 r6 : 02189820 r5 : 02b9f7a8 r4 : 0188017c
r3 : 5218428c r2 : 00018aa0 r1 : 00001109 r0 : 02174350
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: D038D17D Table: D038D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<02035718>] from [<020211e0>]
r10 = BE5FFD2C r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 02135800
r6 = 02135800 r5 = 02135800 r4 = 0218F090
Function entered at [<020211a8>] from [<0201fec4>]
r5 = 0218F090 r4 = 000006F5
Function entered at [<0201fe38>] from [<0201f31c>]
r8 = 021357F4 r7 = 0218F090 r6 = 0216F738 r5 = BE5FFC74
r4 = 0218F090
Function entered at [<0201f300>] from [<0201e588>]
r5 = 000006F5 r4 = 000028A1
Function entered at [<0201e4ec>] from [<02003f08>]
r8 = 0218EEB8 r7 = BE5FFD2C r6 = 0218EEB8 r5 = 00000000
r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003eec>] from [<02002c78>]
Function entered at [<02002aac>] from [<020037d0>]
r10 = 0218EF50 r9 = BE5FFD2C r8 = BE5FFD30 r7 = BE5FFD2C
r6 = 0218EEB8 r5 = 00000000 r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003574>] from [<020ad4f0>]
r10 = 020AD438 r9 = 0218EEB8 r8 = 0000280B r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000B r5 = 0218EEB8 r4 = BE5FFD64
Function entered at [<020ad438>] from [<020b4824>]
r5 = 0218EED0 r4 = BE5FFE40
Function entered at [<020b475c>] from [<020e9bbc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<020e8330>] from [<020b45a0>]
r8 = 0215630C r7 = 021562F8 r6 = 020AD438 r5 = 00000007
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020b44f0>] from [<020e9bbc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<00000020>] from [<bffffc3c>]
Function entered at [<000efff6>] from [<000f0002>]
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000efffa
memmap = D038C000, pgd = c0b8c000
*pgd = d0395801, *pmd = d0395801, *pte = 00000000, *ppte = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 2
CPU: 0
pc : [<c00dfe2c>] lr : [<c0019670>]
sp : c0539f44 ip : c0539f00 fp : c0539f90
r10: 00000002 r9 : c0bb20e0 r8 : 0000000c
r7 : 00000000 r6 : 000efff6 r5 : 000f0002 r4 : fffffffc
r3 : 60000013 r2 : c00fe1e4 r1 : 00000001 r0 : ffffffec
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment user
Control: D038D17D Table: D038D17D DAC: 00000015
Process player (pid: 32, stackpage=c0539000)
Stack:
c0539f20: c0019670 c00dfe2c 600000
13
c0539f40: ffffffff c0bb20f8 c0bb1860 c0538000 c0539fb8 52184294 c0011948 00000a
fe
c0539f60: 52184294 00000002 c0539fb8 00000005 52184294 00000000 00000002 000062
a8
c0539f80: 0218f160 c0539fb4 c0539f94 c0011e80 c00116f8 c00fc978 02b9f7a8 021898
20
c0539fa0: 000006f5 0218f15c 00000000 c0539fb8 c000a008 c0011da8 02174350 000011
09
c0539fc0: 00018aa0 5218428c 0188017c 02b9f7a8 02189820 000006f5 0218f15c 000062
a8
c0539fe0: 0218f160 be5ffc0c cccccccd be5ffbe4 00000afe 02035784 20000010 ffffff
ff
Backtrace:
Function entered at [<c00116ec>] from [<c0011e80>]
r10 = 0218F160 r9 = 000062A8 r8 = 00000002 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 52184294 r5 = 00000005 r4 = C0539FB8
Function entered at [<c0011d9c>] from [<c000a008>]
r8 = 0218F15C r7 = 000006F5 r6 = 02189820 r5 = 02B9F7A8
r4 = C00FC978
Code: ebfce58c e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Abnormal player termination
Player received signal 11
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4054d000
player(46): memory violation at pc=0x02035784, lr=0x00000afe (bad address=0x5218
4294, code 2)
pc : [<02035784>] lr : [<00000afe>]
sp : be5ffbe4 ip : cccccccd fp : be5ffc0c
r10: 0218f160 r9 : 000062a8 r8 : 0218f15c
r7 : 000006f5 r6 : 02189820 r5 : 02b9f7a8 r4 : 0188017c
r3 : 5218428c r2 : 00018aa0 r1 : 00001109 r0 : 02174350
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: D038D17D Table: D038D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<02035718>] from [<020211e0>]
r10 = BE5FFD2C r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 02135800
r6 = 02135800 r5 = 02135800 r4 = 0218F090
Function entered at [<020211a8>] from [<0201fec4>]
r5 = 0218F090 r4 = 000006F5
Function entered at [<0201fe38>] from [<0201f31c>]
r8 = 021357F4 r7 = 0218F090 r6 = 0216F738 r5 = BE5FFC74
r4 = 0218F090
Function entered at [<0201f300>] from [<0201e588>]
r5 = 000006F5 r4 = 000028A1
Function entered at [<0201e4ec>] from [<02003f08>]
r8 = 0218EEB8 r7 = BE5FFD2C r6 = 0218EEB8 r5 = 00000000
r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003eec>] from [<02002c78>]
Function entered at [<02002aac>] from [<020037d0>]
r10 = 0218EF50 r9 = BE5FFD2C r8 = BE5FFD30 r7 = BE5FFD2C
r6 = 0218EEB8 r5 = 00000000 r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003574>] from [<020ad4f0>]
r10 = 020AD438 r9 = 0218EEB8 r8 = 0000280B r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000B r5 = 0218EEB8 r4 = BE5FFD64
Function entered at [<020ad438>] from [<020b4824>]
r5 = 0218EED0 r4 = BE5FFE40
Function entered at [<020b475c>] from [<020e9bbc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<020e8330>] from [<020b45a0>]
r8 = 0215630C r7 = 021562F8 r6 = 020AD438 r5 = 00000007
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020b44f0>] from [<020e9bbc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<00000020>] from [<bffffc3c>]
Function entered at [<000efff6>] from [<000f0002>]
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000efffa
memmap = D038C000, pgd = c0b8c000
*pgd = d0395801, *pmd = d0395801, *pte = 00000000, *ppte = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 2
CPU: 0
pc : [<c00dfe2c>] lr : [<c0019670>]
sp : c0569f44 ip : c0569f00 fp : c0569f90
r10: 00000002 r9 : c0bb20e0 r8 : 0000000c
r7 : 00000000 r6 : 000efff6 r5 : 000f0002 r4 : fffffffc
r3 : 60000013 r2 : c00fe1e4 r1 : 00000001 r0 : ffffffec
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment user
Control: D038D17D Table: D038D17D DAC: 00000015
Process player (pid: 46, stackpage=c0569000)
Stack:
c0569f20: c0019670 c00dfe2c 600000
13
c0569f40: ffffffff c0bb20f8 c0bb13a0 c0568000 c0569fb8 52184294 c0011948 00000a
fe
c0569f60: 52184294 00000002 c0569fb8 00000005 52184294 00000000 00000002 000062
a8
c0569f80: 0218f160 c0569fb4 c0569f94 c0011e80 c00116f8 c00fc978 02b9f7a8 021898
20
c0569fa0: 000006f5 0218f15c 00000000 c0569fb8 c000a008 c0011da8 02174350 000011
09
c0569fc0: 00018aa0 5218428c 0188017c 02b9f7a8 02189820 000006f5 0218f15c 000062
a8
c0569fe0: 0218f160 be5ffc0c cccccccd be5ffbe4 00000afe 02035784 20000010 ffffff
ff
Backtrace:
Function entered at [<c00116ec>] from [<c0011e80>]
r10 = 0218F160 r9 = 000062A8 r8 = 00000002 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 52184294 r5 = 00000005 r4 = C0569FB8
Function entered at [<c0011d9c>] from [<c000a008>]
r8 = 0218F15C r7 = 000006F5 r6 = 02189820 r5 = 02B9F7A8
r4 = C00FC978
Code: ebfce58c e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Abnormal player termination

Never mind, 2.1 seems to have taken care of business...

Odds are the installation of software version 2.1 seeming to fix the problem was a coincidence. It will most likely fail again. You are having one of the usual problems, and until the intermittent fault in the disk drive connection is repaired, you will continue to have trouble on and off.