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babaji:
Hey Guys,

First post here, let me start off by saying you are doing a great job. Fascinating project. Heard about it on floss weekly pod-cast.

So far I have successfully rockboxed a Sansa e200 V1  and a a friends FuzeV1.

Been pulling my hair out lately with My IPOD. I got a (new? off ebay) 40GB HD to breath life back into my ipod Classic 4g greyscale.

Everything seemed to go great, restored via itunes, did a complete RB 3.71 install. Loaded some music (mp3's) and it seemed to work great, database and all. Problem came when i filled it to the rafters (37 or so GB) of music and did a database initialize. On reboot (about halfway through database refresh, it conks out with a data abort error at 0004cc68 (0).

I did some reading, and found that some people had trouble with faulty tags causing similar problems. So I tried to identify the offending album. But I am pretty sure it's not a problem of bad tags. As I will load up a folder called Music with about 6.7 gigs of music, initialize and reboot. Goes great database works a treat. Then I will add another folder Music2 fill it with 10 gigs of different mp3. Init DB reboot , and bang Data abort. So just to prove to myself that it's not a problem with a tag in Music2 folder, I drop a database.ignore file into the Music (first folder), Init, reboot and it works great! So it does not seem to be a problem with the tags?

HDD seems to run a little hot, not too sure it was really brand new as claimed. But ran spin-rite on it and it seems good, aside from the heat.

Any Ideas?

Thanks In advance.

saratoga:
Here is a build with FS#11776 added.  If you go to the debug menu, you should be able to enable an option to log the database build.  Then when the device crashes, you should get a metadata.log file on your disk (although depending how the crash happens you may need to check the file system for errors to recovery the file if it dies while writing). 

http://duke.edu/~mgg6/rockbox/rockbox4g-logging.7z

I would be very interested in seeing this file that causes the data abort if you can find it.

See also:  http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/11776?project=1&type=4&order=id&sort=desc

babaji:
Thanks for the reply Saratoga,

Not sure I did this right, but here goes.

I renamed my .rockbox folder and dropped in the one you pointed me to.
I then enabled the metatag logging
I then initialized the DB, it crashed during that initialization (usually it only happens on reboot)
then I did a hard reset, and it also data aborted on the reboot.
It left me a log file.
It seems that it did complete the entire scan, right down to the last song of the last album.

Booted into OF and put my Original .Rockbox folder back in place, but on the subsequent reboot i got a Panic message, not sure what happened there?

saratoga:
Can you post the message when it crashes with my build?

babaji:
do you mean the Data Abort when I initialize the database? (i know i said crash, perhaps i mispoke)
Post Merge: December 07, 2010, 12:41:37 AMJust ran another initialize, gave me a Data abort at 0004c740 (0)
Post Merge: December 07, 2010, 03:32:08 PMJust loaded up a bunch of newly minted oggs from well tagged flacs, about 16GB worth of ogg files. It gave me the same Data Abort code 0004c740 (0) after initializing the database.

Starting to wonder if its a memory or other hardware problem I am having

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