well i havent hit panic button yet.. but my player may be messed... its not booting.. and i just reinstalled the kernal and samething.. please dont tell me my hard drive is dead.

i go into terminal and i jsut get this:

pc : [<00000000>] lr : [<02007bd8>]
sp : bffffef4 ip : bffffe9c fp : bfffff14
r10: 02000194 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000001
r7 : bfffff74 r6 : 0203e458 r5 : bfffff7c r4 : 02035930
r3 : 00000008 r2 : bfffff7c r1 : bfffff74 r0 : 00000001
Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C0FA517D Table: C0FA517D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<02007b98>] from [<02007b50>]
r8 = 0202EBE0 r7 = 00000000 r6 = BFFFFF74 r5 = 00000001
r4 = BFFFFF7C
Function entered at [<02007aec>] from [<02007b80>]
r6 = 020000C0 r5 = BFFFFF74 r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<02007b70>] from [<02001004>]
Function entered at [<02000f60>] from [<02000104>]
r10 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00000000 r6 = 00000000
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
init(1): memory violation at pc=0x00000000, lr=0x02007bd8 (bad address=0x0000000
0, code 2)
pc : [<00000000>] lr : [<02007bd8>]
sp : bffffef4 ip : bffffe9c fp : bfffff14
r10: 02000194 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000001
r7 : bfffff74 r6 : 0203e458 r5 : bfffff7c r4 : 02035930
r3 : 00000008 r2 : bfffff7c r1 : bfffff74 r0 : 00000001
Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segm

going a million miles an second.. repeating voer and over again.. whats wrong guys?

unplugged the second hard drive and running how it came when i bought it and getting this,

hda: , ATA DISK drive
hda: no response (status = 0xd4)
hda: no response (status = 0xd4)
hda: no response (status = 0xd4)
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0xd4, count=1
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: , 0MB w/2kB Cache, CHS=4/4/4
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:d7:26:08:7
b
Partition check:
hda:hda: status timeout: status=0xd4 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command

dead hard drive

both of them? how thou? jsut like that

thats what the second bit seems to indicate. have both the drives been formatted with the player software? Try plugging it into the other drive connector.

ya im trying the toher one now.. getting rid of hot glue.. support should take care if this thou correct? its only been liek 2 months since ive had the palyer

I would think so, yes.

yha same thing with the second hard drive? u thin maybe bad cable? stage 2 is going into effect bust out the back up and figure out whats wrong..

well im 80% sure that its a bad cable now.. either that or the pins on my main board are messed up.. as soon i reinstall this upagrade ill know for sure

well crap turns out both hard drive got fried.. hwo could this happen has it happened to anyone else? my next step is to see if jsut the fs got fried by doing a complete drive format and restart it all. if if the accually drives are useless.. damn looks like i need to rebuild my data base.. craphola..

well something magical happened it booted up again out of the blue.. i swear.. im glad i didt format.. or glad it didt let me anyways..

and wow im like talking to myself..

You might want to get your drive cable replaced before attempting to load any more content.

carsupport@sonicblue.com

Rob

i did replace my cable, same situation

What, in the last hour? Where did you get the new cable? What do you mean by "same situation" (the last you said, it was working again)?

Rob

ya i had another cable.. and i replaced it.. i own a few laptops and have the cables laying around.. i got the player working.. but i dont think the cable was the problem.. becuase when i first isntalled the new cable.. everything still went all wack.. i was just messing with it and it somehow worked im not sure what i did

Well if things go all wack again I guess you'd better email support, and smile nicely since you invalidated your warranty!

Rob

hehe already did that.. i invlidated it anywas becue i put the toher drive in there.. in emailed them asking what was up with it.. ill see what the response is

arent standard laptop IDE cables incompatible with empeg ?

No, they work fine. However they don't fit as good into the Empeg's casing. Therefor Empeg had them custom made.