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Cxx0 Hardware / Death Of A C860

« on: January 07, 2005, 09:11:17 am »

I don't want to jinks this but after repeated nand erases and flash attempt I finally have managed to get it working again.  I even managed to flash from the Sharp nand to Cacko 1.22 (I partitioned the root area 28MB instaed of 27MB to be on the safe side).

I have no idea why it is working now or if it will work long term as I still have a number of bad blocks in what is the part of the rom with the diagnostic system.

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Cxx0 Hardware / Death Of A C860

« on: January 06, 2005, 01:58:11 pm »

Managed to flash a NAND image on to my Z so can get a bit more info.  Running - badblocks /dev/mtdblock1 - tells me blocks 512 to 515 are bad.  Dmesg then contains many lines along the lines of

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sharp_sl_nand_read_ecc: Failed ECC read page 0x00000400The numbers are 0x00000400 to 0x00000403.

The current nand image runs okay as long as I only use the terminal and don't try restarting to often.

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Cxx0 Hardware / Death Of A C860

« on: January 06, 2005, 06:21:49 am »

Hi Foxdie,

Thanks for your reply.  I have already looked at you posts on this and they did help.  I tried a full nand erase which fixed things for you.  This did help as it cleared out 5 or 6 bad blocks from high address areas (the data sheet for the nand chip says in has spare blocks that the built in controller will map over bad blocks during a nand format).  My problem is that one of the bad blocks is in the first area of the nand, i.e. the are where the diag tool and boot sector live.  The full erase does not touch this.

In the shower this morning I had what may be a crazy idea but that is the stage I am at.  I know there is the 'nor' technique to flash but no files for the c860.  In theory the require data should be in a full nand back-up so I am going to hack around the one I downloaded with dd and a hex editor.

Thanks again

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Cxx0 Hardware / Death Of A C860

« on: January 05, 2005, 06:23:42 pm »

Here is a tale of woe....

Over the Christmas period my C860 sat in my pocket hardly used, until Christmas Day when I got a new 1GB CF card.  This all worked fine for a while until everything froze.  I pulled the battery and waited for a few minutes, as this usually fixes all and switched on.  Nothing happened except the mail light started flashing repeatedly.  I manage to get a reboot by power cycling lots of times but lots of weird thing started happening (sym links disappearing, qt freezing, application disappearing).

At this stage I was running Cacko 1.21b and knew it would be a couple of days until the new version so I thought, “I will just wait and reflash the new rom”.  I did this, and for the two days it worked I can say 1.22 is great but the same things started happening.

It was at this stage I decided to investigate the service menus.  I checked for bad nand blocks and yes there is one (or more) in the first block of the nand memory – the boot area.  A full erase of the nand cleared a couple of bad blocks out of the higher addresses but the one in the boot area is always left.  This has left my Zaurus unusable.

The worst thing is that I got it cheap on ebay so no warranty and return to Japan for repair is likely to work out more expensive than just biting the bullet and getting a new one from shirtpocket with a warranty service.

So at the end of the day instead of a c860 with 1GB CF and new leather case I am having to use my old, reliable sl-5500 (with the 1 GB CF )

I have trawled the zug and googled for the last couple of days but if any one has any ideas let me know.  I am now at the stage I will try anything.

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Rom 1.22 Is Available!

« on: January 04, 2005, 10:01:47 am »

Great work on this.  Spotted most of the bugs mentioned above; battery charging light not switching off, ncurses and screen blanking straight away.  The battery charging may be related to me using the small battery in my c860 instead of the big battery.

Now for my own little bug.  I no longer get icons appearing in the file tab for my sd or cf cards.  The card applet on the task bar 'sees' them when they are inserted and they are mounted correctly of you go to /mnt/cf or /mnt/card.  They even appear on  my Windows machine via samba.  This is very minor as I have work around it by adding sym links to the cards in the internal flash.

Thanks again for the good work.

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Sharp ROMs / Which Wifi Cards Do You Use?

« on: December 02, 2004, 11:33:31 am »

I have two.  A blue Origol/Senao WiFi Card, from Shirtpocket and a pink Mercury (?) card.  Both are the same except for the colour sticker.  In 1.21b they need the following in wlan-ng.conf.

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card "Origol/Senao WLAN Card"
  manfid 0x000b, 0x7100
  bind "prism2_cs"

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General Discussion / Zsi2 Layout Voting

« on: November 22, 2004, 07:34:59 am »

yzord's blue design for me.

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UK / *BUMP*

« on: November 14, 2004, 04:36:39 pm »

Like above.  Saw this in new posts.

In Edinburgh using c860 to post

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Vi config

« on: November 08, 2004, 10:33:36 am »

I forgot you prob. did not have vim but most likely elvis (type "which vi" at terminal to check.  If you do have elvis there is an equivelent file but I don't know the syntax or location.  Help on elvis can be found at Elvis Help.

Sorry.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Vi config

« on: November 05, 2004, 11:47:25 am »

To solve your backspace problem add to your .vimrc file

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set t_kb=^?
to put the ^? control code in vi press control-v then control-backspace.

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Off Topic forum / Minidisc?

« on: November 05, 2004, 09:49:35 am »

There is a specification for data Minidiscs (half-way down IEEE minidisc) but the standard requires data discs to have a slightly different cartridge shape to the music discs.  This is claimed to be to stop confusion with consumers but was more likely to try to stop people copying discs as can be done with cds to cd-roms.

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General Discussion / Help: Z will NOT suspend!

« on: July 28, 2004, 11:32:43 am »

/usr/local/bin/apm.rom should be sym linked to /usr/local.rom/bin/apm if you have the susp-resume ipk installed.

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Software / SLapAss

« on: July 07, 2004, 08:15:58 am »

Tried to install either ipk on my sharp rom with the graphical installer but neither worked.  Then tried to unpack and re pack the original version of the ipk and install from the command line.  This failed with a message saying zcat had found an error in control.tar.gz. which I had re-packed as well.

While I had everything unpacked I tried to run the program from /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/SLapASS.  This worked but your script then uses awk which is not installed as standard on the sharp roms.

At work now but will try later to install awk and get this working.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Seeing doubles of files when only single copies exsist

« on: June 21, 2004, 06:26:09 pm »

You can make the copies on your sd card hidden (i.e /mnt/card/.home) and point your links to the hidden files.  The Launcher should now only see the symlinks and not the files.  When you use one of the files the symlink should be followed ok.

Be warned I have only tried this with sharp roms and with less important directories than root!

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General Discussion / writing & running scripts

« on: May 27, 2004, 07:56:39 am »

Just cheched.  It is the second without the space.  The first will still seem to work on the Zaurus properly because the the rest of the script is run by the original shell, which on a Zaurus is nearly always sh clone, as a shell function (like a script but without an interpretting shell).