Strange behaviour after Disk Full error while recording

[mlind]

I just filed a bugreport:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7721

I also wanted to see if anyone else in the forums have any experiences like this.
Here's my report:

Yesterday I did a recording and got "The Disk is Full".
After that several things behaved really strange:

1. The last recorded file was unusable.
Actually this happened twice, once with WavPack and once with Wav.
None of the two files (last recorded in each case) played in RockBox, but the WavPack file I was actually able to convert to AIFF with "MAX" (ripper/converter for Mac).

2. The WPS got messed up.
When I played another file the WPS showed "STOP" instead of "PLAYING:" (including other WPS items that should show on stop/pause in my WPS) - but there was sound, and also movement on the peak meters and the progress strip.
After reboot it was fine again.

3 The recorded files was found in an unexpected new directory, that showed twice!
[This I haven't been able to reproduce]
The recording should be made to a dir named "Grieg 2-1", but when I looked that dir was empty and instead I found the files in a new dir (not created by me) named "Grieg 2".
AND: This dir existed twice in the "recordings" directory!
Also in playback the directory would play twice.
After reboot the dir only existed once, but still it was a new one...

[LambdaCalculus]

According to your report, you're using an iriver H100 series, correct?

[mlind]

iRiver H120

Recreated the behaviour today with current build.
Yesterday was a build from last month.

[LambdaCalculus]

Do you remember what SVN revision you were using prior, and what SVN build are you using now? That's actually a critical piece of information you forgot to list on your bug report.

[mlind]

Fixed on the tracker:

"When I first encountered this I was using a build from the beginning of august.
Today when I filed the report I first reproduced the bugs (#1 & #2) with a build from today: r14627M-070906"

[AlexP]

Can you try it with a non-modified current build please?

[mlind]

Can you try it with a non-modified current build please?

What do you mean?
I downloaded this: http://build.rockbox.org/dist/build-h120/rockbox.zip
What makes you think it's modified?
I can't even compile at the moment.

[AlexP]

The M after the version number means modified.  If you downloaded from the rockbox website that is odd.  Could you try redownloading and see if you get a version without the M in the version number?

[mlind]

When I download from the "Current build page" I get build r14627M-070906.
When I download from the "Daily build page" I get build r14625-070906.

Anyway.
The behaviour is the same in both builds.

[AlexP]

Weird!

Anyway, as for your problem I personally haven't experienced it on my H100, but I do next to no recording so that isn't very indicative.

Sorry not to be more help.

[simon142857]

I just loaded the latest build for my H120- got the same "disc full" problem.
I tried the suggested tricks (main menu->Info->Debug->View disk info->FRee->click joystick) and deleting Recycle  and system information files.
Still getting it
I installed the build over a nicely behaving REP build from Mmmmm that's about 3 months old.

[petur]

I am looking into the issue and have so far found that the recording code looks ok (I did change a couple of things to make it write the header), and after the disk full the file looks ok, but not after a reboot. Still have to try this without dircache on.

Looks like I will have to dive into dircache and lower, the file isn't properly closed on disk it seems.

[simon142857]

Well I'll be dipped if now my 120 won't even play mp3's in Rockbox mode!
"Codec Failure"
I can get the IRiver firmware to play them, tho.

Just loaded the latest build, and still whacked!
Shall I try reloading an older build?

ok researched a bit and found a possible snafu
older bootloader
now updating...

ALRIGHT THEN!
that did it- updated bootloader, used the kewl new install util...
disc full issue resolved, codec failure issue resolved
oh yeah...
thanks petur and all for your awesome work!

Now the recording setup is a bit different- is there updated documentation?

[petur]

ALRIGHT THEN!
that did it- updated bootloader, used the kewl new install util...
disc full issue resolved, codec failure issue resolved

- please don't post general support issues in the recording subforum
- I haven't fixed the discfull issue yet so it can't be ok... the resulting file will still be 0 bytes afaik...

[simon142857]

hmmmm....
i started off with a "disc full" warning while trying to record.
Now I can record. It's working perfectly.
asfaik.

Might what came in between those two events  be of interest to others trying to record and receiving the disk full warning?