If a virgin laptop drive spins but you don't hear the familiar scratchings does that necessarily mean it's dead?
I am attempting to replace a dieing/dead original drive in the Empeg w/another but it seems dead as well. I know it's NOT the IDE header or cable for another works in it's place. I attempted to put the builder upgrade on the new drive, continue to get a 'bad pump response' error. This happened from the start. If I get a laptop to IDE adapter for my WinXP PC would that tell me anything about it being defective? How does one truly know a hard drive is bad when it's new?
Another odd thing is the original dieing/dead drive gave me the same errors even though it worked before I ran the builder upgrade, I wasn't concerned w/the data on it being lost but it seems strange that it won't respond either. I thought it would give me a little more time out of it. Of course I can't test on any other drives as they are keepers. So what I have is a potentially dead new drive & old drive that doesn't respond to the 'builder upgrade'. Does this make any sense?

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... old drive that doesn't respond to the 'builder upgrade...

Remember if the drive is already built that you need to have the Empeg connected up to the serial so you can press Enter somewhere in the process (as per the Empeg FAQ under Step 6 - Formatting the new drive)...

Stig

I don't think it ever got built. The builder wizard never gets to where I thought it was finished. The builder upgrade wizard sits dead at selecting pump device until I guess it times out w/the error of 'bad pump response'. I can't get Hyperterminal to connect because the upgrade file is using the connection, I think.

I would suspect serial port issues or other technical issues with the player hardware before assuming two dead drives in a row.

The serial port seems to work fine otherwise though I wouldn't think 2 drives would go either, but to be fair one was suspected bad & the other was new & never tried so I thought maybe it's possible. I can communicate w/the player & get a bash prompt. I have also tried this (builder upgrade w/both of my players a Mk2 & a Mk2a mostly w/the 2a. Now I must say at this point that the 2a had a 2beta13 running on it initially (I thought all along it was loaded w/2 final-I don't use it much) I quickly put a ver. 2 final on it & tried some more.

Is it possible I did something w/the first drive (new) somewhere. I mean can you apply the builder partially or wrong, if the serial didn't work at that particular time as you stated Tony. If so what could be done to rectify the situation? Anything I can try before I send the drive back?
If the drive sounds like it's spinning, i.e. slight buzz & vibrating slightly, but it doesn't scratch is it dead?

OK here's the serial output on the chip

empeg display initialised.5:59ad.cpp: 180:@@ #37d0
empeg dsp audio initialisedError -4 occurred at disk p
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialisedhread.cpp: 180:@@ #37
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@
empeg single channel IDE 0:05:59 Comm
serial_
Probing primary interface...d0 0:05:59
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive ff 3f 3f ff 3f a0 00y_thread.cpp: 1
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive: 180:@@ #37d0 0:05:59e290 0:01:31
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
serial_n

If something looks strange about a drive it's because one of them wasn't connected when this was done. There's is an error mentioned "error -4 occurred at disk p" not sure what this means.
I'm not sure what this means as far as the chip being good or bad, would it say bad after the name?

OK- from searching I take it's good, sigh of relief now on to other tries.

Firstly, the reason why your serial log is so jumbled is that Hyperterminal is crap. It is a terrible app and the only redeeming feature is that it is bundled with most versions of Windows.

"Error -4 occurred at disk p" isn't from the default empeg software. Have you been running smartctl? smartctl will print out errors along the lines of "Error <blah> occurred at disk power-on lifetime: "

Does the disk that's being formatted have to be on a particular side of the IDE cable (L/R)?
Per FAQ:

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If you want to stress test the second disk, you must swap it into the primary drive slot

or is this talking about the drive jumper?

I know, I'm grasping at straws right? I'm just looking for a solution. I've literally swapped drives & players (Mk2&Mk2a) around all night. It can't be an issue w/cables (used 2 different ones & they work when used for playing files), so the IDE headers must work too. The old drive mentioned in an earlier post, when used to play files, wasn't harmed by the builder wizard for it worked when syncing w/Emplode. Except for the complaint of playlists missing but a subsequent sync fixxed that after a database rebuilding. The builder file, I guess isn't corrupt (D/L w/GetRight).
I'm stumped

Since we know that there have been problems using the disk builder, have you tried building the disk manually?

Stig

It means jumper the drive to primary. It doesn't matter which position you put the drives on the cable as it doesn't have cable select.

No t yet but I might try it. I glanced at the procedure.

That's what I thought but had to ask.

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Apply the image and when it is completely finished & exits...

See this is what I'm stumbling on, the builder doesn't finish. I get a 'bad pump response error 0x25' after it sits there idle for awhile.

Here's exactly what the upgrade wizard goes through step by step maybe it will help explain:

1)Erasing flash (Boot loader)
2)Programming flash (Boot loader)
3)Erasing flash (Kernel)
4)Programming flash (Kernel)
5)Find pump (preparing first disk)
6)Waiting for pump [this goes very quickly]
7)Selecting pump device [this is where it sits there for several minutes w/no progress on bar]
8)Error "bad pump response" occurred during stage 0x25
[at the bottom are buttons for <back/finish/close]
The static logo will sit on screen until I unplug it. If I plug it back in I get the same staic logo for a few seconds then the dreaded No hard disk found Contact support.
Does any of help?

I tried another hard drive that already had some music on it, I get the same results using the builder wizard. Strangely when I reapplied the developer image to the player & synced it w/Emplode the music files were pretty much unharmed except the playlists were munged a bit, another sync solved that.

Are you using a dock of some kind?

--Nathan

No, home AC.

It looks like from the instructions on the manual build version I would need to be able to get a bash prompt is this correct?
If so I'm screwed for I can't reached this point on the disk. Is there any other ways?

My ? now would be is it possible that the first time I attempted to use the builder wizard that it/I did a partial job & now the disk is toasted?

Greetings!

Sorry - it has been a busy week at the office, so I haven't been paying attention.

Can you recap your exact status?

You have 1 or 2 new drives...
What is their capacity?
What model empeg do you have?
What is the status of the drives relative to running builder or attempting manual builds?
Do you have a working / reliable serial link?

It might be possible to step you through from there.

Hello I appreciate the response, luckily I have a backup player or I think I be going nuts right now

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You have 1 or 2 new drives...

Trying to build 1 new drive 40G Hitachi Travelstar.

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What model empeg do you have?

Tried on both a Empeg & Rio branded player as well as different cables that were known to work when using players normally.

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What is the status of the drives relative to running builder or attempting manual builds?

Brand new drive. I had tried an existing drive (empeg software/music) loaded that I knew worked but didn't mind if the builder fryed it, just to see if there was something wrong w/the new drive. After trying to use the builder on it I reinstalled developer w/same drive & synced it to Emplode. The playlists were mangled a bit after re-syncing once more they were fine. Seems like the builder didn't do anything? I'm not sure.

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Do you have a working / reliable serial link?

Yes, I can reach a bash prompt using an existing (playlists/developer v2.0 installed on it) drive in same spot player. I can also get output via serial port while the builder is on player but unresponsive to my commands.
If this helps here's the serial output I get when connecting to Empeg after a unplug/plugin after the builder wizard has had a go at building disk and returned the error -"bad pump response" occurred during stage 0x25.

#======================= Connected 10:39 AM 2/3/2006 =========================#


empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])
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 kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg49 ([email protected]) (gcc versi
on 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #130 Mon Oct 22 18:52:07 BST 2001
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 90000695)
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10968k/12M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 332k 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 d0005b80).
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 ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:12:02:b
7
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
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

If you have one Empeg with one drive with developer image, then just install the new drive as a secondary drive. Then you shouldn't have any problems getting a bash prompt and can follow the instructions for a manual build...

Stig

That won't fry the existing disk when the new one is formatted?

I had actually thought about that but was afraid the loaded drive would get zapped/fryed also, in the process.

Actually, if you have a fully functional boot drive (already built), you should install the second drive and NOT user the builder image. Boot into the empeg developer version and partition and then format the second drive manually. The links in these steps assume just this configuration - a fully functioning boot drive and the addition of a second drive.

OK, I'll try it now, thanks.

Ughhhh I haven't begun the process of partitioning the new drive for now I have a hangup getting serial to connect to the original master drive, when it worked before it's either dead now or I don't know what.
Using the manual method can an existing master drive come from another player or is there a way to use the manual method w/only the new drive?
The reason I ask is now the drive that was working as the master, the drive that the new drive is going to replace in the player I want to add the new drive to, isn't responding to Emplode. Only the original slave is working but Emplode crashes when checking the media for I think the master is failing.
This thing is really getting frustrating. I guess I only have a working slave drive.