ATA error (+ frozen bootscreen)

[Brett]

Hi there !

Not really sure if this is the right subforum (according to the information in the sticky), but couldn't find a more appropriate place to post this.

I've been getting an ATA error, and I believe it says "-6". It's on a two-week-old Clip+ 4GB which I equipped with a 16GB Sandisk Class 4 card. It doesn't happen every time I turn it on, I think I've seen the error about 3 times in one week (I use it every day), but today it froze on the bootscreen (logo screen with Rockbox version number). About 15 minutes later it booted normally at a press on the power button, but the fact that it froze tells me I should do something, and the previous ATA errors are my only lead to go by.

I did a search but couldn't find any info about this specific error.

Does someone know what it means, and/or what I should do?

Some info that may be helpful:
Clip+ 4GB + 16GB Sandisk class 4 SDHC card (All the music is on the memory card)
Bootloader 3.0
Rockbox 3.9


ps. I've been using Rockbox on my (previous) Clip+ for about a year and really love it! Much thanks and appreciation to all the devs for this wonderful piece of software!

[saratoga]

You've got an old bootloader that has trouble with some NAND chips on there somehow.  Install the bootloader again from rockbox utility and it should update you to the current one.

[Brett]

Thanks a lot, the utility updated the bootloader to v4.0 and I haven't seen a freeze since.

Thanks for your help!