#358415 - 30/04/201314:01Beloved Mk2a, Tuner, Dock, Case and Stuff!
sein
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Registered: 07/01/2005
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Loc: Sector ZZ9pZa
My Empeg has been pride of place at the top of my bookshelf for a while now, and I realised that it was quite dusty up there. I don't really want to sell it, but it is better that someone uses it rather than it just sits there and does nothing. One day if I do get a suitable car, I'll probably hunt down another one.
I have Lunatic which is my own Empeg that saw service in my Skoda Fabia in 2005 and the Mazda 3 in 2008.
It has been sitting on my shelf for a long time, next to my Best Installation 2006 Trophy!
I did find the box of stuff. It is one box.
Close up of the face. It is in mint condition, the face and lens are both pretty much New.
No disk included. I once ran it with a CompactFlash adapter which I didn't want to short out on the drive tray, hence the Duct Tape. I may still have that adapter somewhere... If I find it, I'll include it.
Main board with matching serial number
The IDE connectors are in excellent condition, with no signs of dryness, fragility or lifting from the board.
#358416 - 30/04/201314:02Re: Beloved Mk2a, Tuner, Dock, Case and Stuff!
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sein
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The other side of the IDE connector
So there are the original slightly grubby buttons, and the original Black Anodized fascia screws. Also a set of Stealth Black buttons (installed) and Red Buttons from Chris and Prototype Stainless Steel fascia screws from Hugo.
The one day I failed to lock the Mazda in my driveway some sticky fingered person took my parking change, pack of Polos and the Rio Remote. Thank god they didn't take my Empeg. I have a brand new Rio Remote, very little use. Will throw in a fresh battery.
Original Empeg User Guide, Addendum and Software CD. Windows 98, please make sure your computer is up to spec.
This is the original fascia, its in okay condition and definitely a good spare just in case.
A Full set of all of the original lenses. The Blue one on the player right now is in perfect as new condition, and the Red, Amber and Green lenses are brand new unused. The Blue lens is well used and not so great shape, but still workable. Once installed I remember it is not bad.
#358417 - 30/04/201314:05Re: Beloved Mk2a, Tuner, Dock, Case and Stuff!
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sein
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Original Empeg/Rio Tuner Module. This works fine, and the remote/stalk input works well too. It comes with some antenna cables and adapters (my Mazda needed these).
The Sled. Its in 'okay' condition. It does all work, but when the Empeg is installed the handle doesn't completely engage all the way down (handle sticks out by a millimetre or two). It has always been like this, and could easily be fixed by cutting the holes in the top of the sled larger or making some other adjustments if it did bother you. I stopped noticing after a while!
Closeup of the connector bit
The tabs are good. The ones on the top have never been bent, and the ones on the bottom are not mangled.
Comes with IBM Laptop Power Supply, 16V, 2.2A and the right connector on the end. The tip is slightly damaged (didn't come out in the picture, sorry) but works perfectly fine.
You also get original window stickers, one of the Mk1 ones, and one of each internal and external Mk2. Also an Empeg carry case (rarer than the rare Riocar one!). Also throwing in speaker cables and RCA Leads which were in the box, they look pretty good quality. It is quite a package.
It does fire up, and works as you would expect. The encoder knob should work perfectly too - it was replaced by Rob S a long while back and been used gently since.
I'd let it all go for £225. I am in the UK, North London if you want to collect, or I am happy to pack it all up if you want to pay postage. Would rather not split it to be honest, it is a nice complete set of Empeg stuff!
#358608 - 13/05/201306:07Re: Beloved Mk2a, Tuner, Dock, Case and Stuff!
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sein
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Two 80GB Toshiba MHV2080AH drives installed:
The Big Disk Builder upgrade image handled this just fine with no issues, its now running 2.01 and the latest Hijack v515. The kernel output over serial looks like this (with the tuner plugged in too):
Code:
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 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg55-hijack-v515 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Jul 20 09:24:02 EDT 2011
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 10101186) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15000k/16M available (996k 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 20706d65 'emp '
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
show_message("Hijack v515 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 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004c00).
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 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0000
hda: FUJITSU MHV2080AH, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHV2080AH, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHV2080AH, 76319MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHV2080AH, 76319MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
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:d7:22:04:a2
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
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...ot: 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
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: Jamaica
Hijack: intercepting config.ini
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
kftpd: listening on port 21
khttpd: listening on port 80
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x4086d000
I loaded on some music to play around:
Installed a new CR2025 battery into the remote control, and it is all sweet. Lunatic is ready once more to (Robot) Rock!
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