Player: DP-508
Firmware: 2.8.3 Dracula (the famous one)

Ok, here is my problem; There is a file stuck on my harddrive:

# /hdd/video/starwars6.avi

I cannot delete it via the GUI, or via telnet (rm). The clean harddrive feature also gives me a nice "Cleanup failed" message. No matter what I do, it is there to stay. I can't upload anything to the machine without the files ending up as 0Kb. (non playable)

I decided to go with the following steps.....


Cleaning the HDD
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# Unmount the partitions
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# umount /systempart/
# umount /hdd/

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# Run e2fsck to check and clean the drives
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/bin # /bin/e2fsck /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
e2fsck 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
KiSS_HDD was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
KiSS_HDD: 11/126480 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 15964/503968 blocks

/bin # ./e2fsck -c /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
e2fsck 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
./e2fsck: Memory allocation failed while retrying to read bitmaps for KiSS_HDD

Next try gives me:
# /bin/e2fsck /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
e2fsck 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
KiSS_HDD: clean, 35/9715712 files, 498732/19420002 blocks

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# Remount the harddrives
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# mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 /systempart
# mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 /hdd

Still no luck! Maxje is pissed now! Now I tried my Kiss to re-initialize the disk by unmounting the disks and pressing quick-setup. It re-initialises the disk....... but the file is still there...

This is what my partition table looks like.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 1 1000 503968+ 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 1001 155127 77680008 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3 1 1 0 0 Empty
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.


What should I do?

Maxje

[Hi-Jack]

Did you also try to shitdown the player complately for a minute?
The rest you already done as i see...

Can you try recording and does it work?
If a new file is created, the old one will loose focus.

Just an idea, have not any other idea unless Partition Magix delete all...