Three days ago I've upgraded my 60GB hd with a new 120GB one, I've formatted the new one, reinstalled alpha11+the last hijack and transferred all the fids from the old HD as shown in the f.a.q.. Everything worked well for three days, the empeg worked at home and in car, everything perfect.

Today I've powered up the empeg and it freezed with the display showing this popup:

0000.3 hda: err: stat_err

First of all I've thought at HD failure so I've replaced the new 120GB disk with the old 60GB one but I've exactly the same problem.

this is the serial log:

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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-v476 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Thu May 17 20:32:18 EDT 2007

Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11

Checking for extra DRAM:

c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001

NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.

empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101588) 16MB DRAM

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 364k 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 67706d65 'empg'

Found custom animation at offset 0x9a790

Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1

show_message("Hijack v476 by Mark Lord")

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 1010

empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004f00).

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...

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xff80

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xff80

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xff80

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5580

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xff80

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xff80

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xeb80

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5580

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xfffd

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xfffd

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xfffd

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x7ffd

hda: TMSHI@A MI1034GAX, ATA DISK drive

ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6

hda: TMSHI@A MI1034GAX, 114473MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63

empeg-flash driver initialized

smc chip id/revision 0x0000

smc_init couldn't find card

Partition check:

hda:hda: set_multmode: status=0x58

hda: stat_err: status=0x58

show_message("0000.3 hda: err: stat_err")

hda: drive not ready for command

ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x58, count=1

unknown partition table

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...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

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I've just had problems with IDE years ago, because of this Rob repaired my empeg 2 times, the last one he changed the IDE cable with a brand new one and resoldered/glued the board connector. I've triple checked everything, I've reinstalled 2.0, 3a11 and various hijack versions but nothing, I really don't know what to do :/

Thanks for any help or support! :'/

There's definitely something wrong with the hardware here -- the SMC ethernet chip is not being detected, plus the hard drive data is getting corrupted.

Could be a bad cable, bad header, bad SMC chip, or other possibliities.

Cheers

Thank you very much for the reply Mark, it's always a pleasure to have someone to talk to in this hard cases.
I've just asked Schofiel for (the third) repair but still no answer, if he doesn't have time, would you please consider to give it a look? I'm quite good with solderings of normal components and chips but i can't do SMD, do you think I can give it a try?
In the end, do you have an idea of the cause of this failure? Does the HD upgrade could be the problem? Thanks.

Hi Mark, I've just sent you an email, please let me know when you read it, thanks.