All of a sudden the player just locked up, and on boot the dreaded "No hard disk found Contact support"

Here's the log from when both HD's are hooked up, if I pull one, the only change is the log lines for that HD are missing.




e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg51 (mac@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #17 Wed Jul 24 18:23:20 BST 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 30102576)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k 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 d0005a00).
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: IBM-DJSAm2q0` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2s0pAT ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSAm2q0` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `, 16127MB w/8576kB Cache, CHS=32767/
16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2s0pAT ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `, 16127MB w/10240kB Cache, CHS=32767
/16/63
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:d7:26:0a:1
0
Partition check:
hda: unknown partition table
hdb: 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...€,]]Y[üº 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

You've looked at this already, right?

The only items in the list that could be affecting me would be
Dry Solder joints
Faulty CS4132A chip

(I've just got done putting on the cable and HD from the other player into this one) So it can't be a bad cable, or HD.

edit: And I've used two different Empeg power supplys, so it's not that either.

Sometimes the cables work loose inside the player after you've closed it all up, so don't immediately assume the solder joint problem. But do check for both.

I was booting it just hooked to the board, not sealing it all the way back up due to the fact that I'm not that much of a glutton for punnishment (Though I'm currently on my 6th straight listen through of Scarlet's Walk)

It turned out to be a cold joint, heated up the iron, and ran through the joints, and it started booting up fine when I hooked back up the drives.

Now back to Tori

Now back to Tori