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5x00 General discussions / 5600 Processor - How do I tell if I have a PX250 or PX255?

« on: April 03, 2004, 04:22:57 am »

Sharp must still be making them with a 250 processor. I got mine and the main board failed on it after <1hr. It went back to sharp and they replaced the main board and it came back with a 250 processor. I would have figured that when they discovered the problem with the 250\'s they would have switched to the 255 and all new ones after some point come with a 255 but the fact that the new main board that they installed at the service center was a 250 tells you something.

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General Discussion / what\'s eating my /?

« on: April 03, 2004, 03:54:35 am »

I finally got my 5600 back from the shop and I flashed it with OZ3.6.1. Now I\'ve got a problem with my / filling up very very quickly. I\'m not exactly sure why.

I moved some big files over to my SD card and created symlinks to them back on the / file system. But I\'ve gone through 3 cycles of this so far and / keeps filling up to 100%

I\'m not 100% sure yet but I think it has something to do with the handwriting recogniser. My handwriting is not much like the one used by the recogniser and so I\'ve tried cusomizing it.

I\'ve been looking through the file system pretty carefully and I can\'t seem to find where the space is disappearing. If this were a server machine I\'d think that someone rm\'d a log that was still open. The log file still grows but you can\'t do anything about it since the directory entry for it is now missing.

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General Discussion / Bumm hardware?

« on: March 12, 2004, 12:52:26 am »

p.s. It is plugged in. I also tried removing the SD card and the CF card to ensure that it is not a problem there.

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General Discussion / Bumm hardware?

« on: March 12, 2004, 12:51:14 am »

I got a new 5600 a few days ago and I only played with it for a couple of minutes before I tried flashing it using the old 5500 procedure. After I found out about the differences in flashing a 5600 vs. a 5500, I was able to flash my 5600 and I was able to play with it for a few minutes.
                                                                               
Then it froze. Nothing would work including the on/off/cancel switch. I figured that it was time some flakyness in the kernel or something. I eventually opened the back and tried resetting it. It came back but hung in the boot processes around the place where it tries to start opie. I tried this again and it hung somewhere in the init scripts right after something about the PCMCIA.
                                                                               
So I figured that I would reflash it. I can\'t even get it to go into maintenance mode. I open the back, press the reset, close the back and I can hold OK and cancel for several minutes and it doesn\'t even turn on.
                                                                               
If this were one of the ia32 or ia64 machines that I\'m used to working on then I\'d guess that I have hardware problems. Does that sound right to people more familiar with this hardware? Or is it possible to get these things into really weird states where they are totally unresponsive? If so how do you get them out?