[Empeg-general] Re: No Hard Disc Found Contact Support

[Nic@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

I have a very similar problem to 94cobra and skamp's on a 30GB Rio - same boot error, occurs mostly during car use, maybe for half an hour it might not boot and then *woo* it works again. It DOES occur during AC use, but far less frequently. It has also been getting worse and worse. It feels like a dying HDD...but I'm so trying not to accept this 

I've replaced the IDE cable with a new one from support and I've double checked it's tightly fitted. 

After a great deal of "why won't it break when I WANT it to?!" frustration I have gotten a serial log from the little beast. 

Here it is: It doesn't *feel* like it gives much away, but here goes: 



empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com) 
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 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50-hijack-v225 (root@tbird.localnet) 
(gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sat Mar 2 09:22:29 EST 2002 
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11 
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp. 
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30103054) 
Command line: mem=16m 
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS 
Memory: 14968k/16M available (1008k code, 20k reserved, 384k 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 20706d65 'emp ' 
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 d0004b00). 
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... 
empeg-flash driver initialized 
smc chip id/revision 0x3349 
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu) 

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 
00:02:d7:26:0b:ee 
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...VFS: Cannot open root device 03:05 
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 


There. Any comments? Email support and cry for mercy?