Freezing problem on Gigabeat when disconnecting from bootloader USB mode

[bascule]

I'm running a Gigabeat F20 with the latest bootloader (21st April) and whenever I use the bootloader USB mode (device off; plug in USB; power up device) I find it does not restart correctly.

Using either WinXP or Win2k, I do the 'Safely Disconnect' operation, which causes no change on the Gigabeat screen (but I don't know whether it should) and then when I unplug I just get blank screen with the backlight permanently on and no buttons functioning. It requires a battery switch-off to reset it.

This doesn't seem right to me, but I can't find any info anywhere on whether this should work as I expect.

Should I be holding a button while disconnecting or something?

[kkurbjun]

Do you have these same problems in the main build as well?  There should not be any button you need to hold.

[bascule]

If by 'main build', you mean the the non-bootloader USB connection, then no, that works fine.

I have just tried it again, upgrading to r13396 at the same time and it worked fine.

However, disconnecting from the the bootloader USB is still problematic. Sometimes it flashes an ATA error (too quickly to read the number), but mostly it just hangs as previously described.

EDIT: I also just replaced the bootloader on the very slim chance it was corrupted - no change. Could this be a strange hardware version problem?

[Chronon]

Bascule, I have only used the bootloader USB mode once with my F40 and it gave me an ATA error.  I was able to restart from this, however.  I usually just boot into Rockbox now and avoid using the bootloader USB mode.

[kkurbjun]

Would you guys be interested in trying two new bootloader builds?  I have two possibilities off hand that may help out the error you are running into.

[bascule]

Yeah! upload it somewhere and I'll give it a go.

[kkurbjun]

Good news so to speak.  I just got a new harddrive for one of my formerly broken gigabeats and I get the bootloader white screen after disconnect/ata error so I will do my own testing and hopefully commit a fix when I have it figured out.  Thanks for pointing out the problem.

[bascule]

Excellent, thanks for looking into it.

I've created a Flyspray entry (http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7184) and assigned it to you (hope you don't mind!)