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#310484 - 26/05/2008 07:00 Need help with HD upgrade please
pedrohoon
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Registered: 06/08/2002
Posts: 333
Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia
Hello, I have replaced the original 10GB HD in one of my players with a Fujitsu 40GB HD (straight swap) but I was unable to get the disk builder upgrade to finish, it kept taking a long time to do the pump part, then finally came up with an error at stage 0x20.

So I followed Roger's instructions here to manually partition the drive, which appears to have worked.

After rebooting the player to follow the next stage instructions here, I can't seem to get past the pump prompt, and when I do hit Ctrl-A to get the pump> prompt, I can't do anything there, and the player display shows 'no HD found contact support'.

Can anyone help me get any further please?

Boot log is here:

(Sorry for the messy output, it is what shows up in hyperterm)


Code:
empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])let them speak now,                            

or 

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!heir peace...If there is anyone present who wants to upgrad               



e000 v1.04          

Copying kernel...                 

Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg55 (peter@tatu) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315eir peace...If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade th                  

 (release)) #20 Tue Jul 6 15:36:06 BST 2004                  

e flash, let them speak 

Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11hold their peace...If there is anyone prese

Checking for extra DRAM:h                       

c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read 9afffff0                 

e flash, let them spe

NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.re is anyone present who wants to upgrade th                           

empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102663)let them speak now,                            

or forever hol

Command line: mem=16mre is anyone         

e flash, let 

Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)forever hold their peace...If there is anyone 

Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)                                                     

Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)          

or forever hold their peace...If there 

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIXde th                              

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2                       

e 

Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039r forever hold their peace...If there is anyone present

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0                                 

IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP        

e flash, let them s

TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)their peace...If there is anyone                     

Starting kswapd v 1.5                     

SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled

or forever hold their peace...If there is anyone present who wa

ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART                                                

ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART        

or forever hold their peace...If there 

ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART                                                

Signature is 206f6972 'rio 'ash, let them speak now,    

empeg display initialised. forever hold their peace.

empeg dsp audio initialised                           

or forever

empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012esent who wants to upgrade th           

empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005c00).       

e flash, let them speak now,                         

empeg RDS driver initialisedce...If there is anyone pres

empeg single channel IDE

Probing primary interface...

hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive

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

hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, 38154MB w/8192kB 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:d7:26:0a:6

7

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.

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)

Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...

pump>
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#310486 - 26/05/2008 10:07 Re: Need help with HD upgrade please [Re: pedrohoon]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
You don't do anything at the pump prompt; that's for the upgrader. You should just load a developer player image onto the empeg, and then format the disk from there.
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#310489 - 26/05/2008 12:42 Re: Need help with HD upgrade please [Re: Roger]
pedrohoon
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Registered: 06/08/2002
Posts: 333
Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia
Hi Roger,

the above boot info was taken after loading the car2-developer-v2.01-final.upgrade on to the player, it boots OK up to the pump prompt, then just hangs instead of automatically continuing on to the developer prompt where you can issue play commands or get to the bash shell.

I hooked up the original 10GB drive to the same connector (I hadn't erased anything on the original drive) and it boots right through and plays songs OK, so the cable appears to be fine, which is what I assumed considering I was able to partition the new drive.

If I can't get it to boot far enough to get a prompt up to format the new drive, I guess I will have to try hooking the new drive up to a PC via an adaptor and formatting it via Knoppix or something, would that work?

Thanks.


Edited by pedrohoon (26/05/2008 13:10)
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#310490 - 26/05/2008 13:12 Re: Need help with HD upgrade please [Re: pedrohoon]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Perhaps you should just start over, and use the newer "bigdisk" builder image to format the drive. It should generally work better than the older builders.

-ml

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#310511 - 27/05/2008 09:43 Re: Need help with HD upgrade please [Re: mlord]
pedrohoon
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Registered: 06/08/2002
Posts: 333
Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia
Hi Mark,

Will the builder_bigdisk_v3.upgrade program work with the standard empeg kernel or only the Hijack kernel?

It is slightly confusing in the file description here whether it includes the Hijack v488 kernel, or just supports it.

Thanks.
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#310519 - 27/05/2008 15:39 Re: Need help with HD upgrade please [Re: pedrohoon]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Big disks (more than 120GB or so) work *only* with Hijack kernels.

The bigdisk builder images have built-in Hijack kernels.

Disks built with bigdisk that are smaller than 128GB will work with "regular" kernels as well as with Hijack kernels.

EDIT: there also now exist *experimental* bigdisk builders, which are labelled as such. Those ones lay out the drive in a form which requires a Hijack kernel from that point onward. Don't use those unless you have a big drive.

-ml


Edited by mlord (27/05/2008 15:42)

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#310553 - 28/05/2008 11:17 Re: Need help with HD upgrade please [Re: mlord]
pedrohoon
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Registered: 06/08/2002
Posts: 333
Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia
Thanks Mark, that big disk builder did the trick, now I have a Hijacked Empeg! Loading mp3s right now!

The instructions in the FAQ suggest the big disk builder upgrade is only necessary for drives >120GB, maybe the FAQ should be updated if this builder works better for all size disks?
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#310628 - 29/05/2008 14:47 Re: Need help with HD upgrade please [Re: pedrohoon]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
Originally Posted By: pedrohoon
The instructions in the FAQ suggest the big disk builder upgrade is only necessary for drives >120GB, maybe the FAQ should be updated if this builder works better for all size disks?


I just read the Drive Upgrade Guide, and it's very clear that you should use the bigdisk builder for drives that are 40-60 GB or larger.

Where it talks about >120, it's talking about the player firmware upgrade file, which is a different thing.

I'm pretty sure it's accurate right now, unless Mark tells me otherwise.
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#310836 - 02/06/2008 07:13 Re: Need help with HD upgrade please [Re: tfabris]
pedrohoon
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Registered: 06/08/2002
Posts: 333
Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia
You are right Tony, I just got confused by the different size limits mentioned in various places, ranging from 40-60GB, 60GB, >120GB, 128GB, 160GB.

I am easily confused. wink

Anyway, my player is working great again, and I can fit my entire collection on it now (until further CD purchases!). Thanks to everyone for their help.
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"I spent 90% of my money on women, drink and fast cars. The rest I wasted." - George Best

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