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                 mdipasq1 
                 
                
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                       Posted - 19 Sep 2008 :  10:43:47
                        
                      
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                       Hi.  I recently recieved a Sphere II.  It was working fine for a few days.  Yesterday, I tried to copy a file to internal flassh (FlashFx Disk).  Explorer Froze.  When I rebooted, it would get to the point where it normally executes the programs stored in the Startup folder in 'FlashFx Disk', then it never progresses further.  I monitored the debug output using a serial cable.  Has anyone seen this before?  Is it indicative of a hardware failure?  I was tempted to erase sectors of internal flash, but I was not bold enough to do this.  Here's my terminal output:
   Sphere Platform - Bootloader  ------------------------------------------------  * Version 1.11  * Built on Nov  6 2007 at 16:35:22 ==================================================
 
   M_24LC08B Initialize - Succeeded MfgCode 00890089 Flash initilized - BASE: 0x60000000 SIZE: 67108864
  Flash Information: ----------------------------------- Bytes Per Block ........ 0x40000 Number of Blocks ....... 0x100 Flash Type ............. 0x1 Data Bytes Per Sector .. 0x200 Sectors Per Block ...... 0x200
   Boot option: 3, 2, 9000
   PCCard Voltage Detect: Unsupported card  PCMGetStatus: No card on Sockets(0)
  ------------------- Booting from FLASH: -------------------  - Loading image into RAM...  - Launching image at 0x200000.
  Windows CE Kernel for ARM (Thumb Enabled) Built on Feb  8 2007 at 23:36:51 ProcessorType=0920  Revision=0 sp_abt=ffff5000 sp_irq=ffff2800 sp_undef=ffffc800 OEMAddressTable = 802011d0 OEMInit() Enter...  InitClock() -  Cpu (FCLK) = 199MHz, Bus (HCLK) = 99MHz, Peripheral (PCLK) = 49M Hz  Cold start: 432023FB  LdrUnLockBlock :  FlashDataAddress = 0x0, BufferSize=0x40000  LdrUnLockBlock :  info.size = 0x2000000, info.block_size=0x40000  **********************************  * Onboard CPLD Register Contents *  * ------------------------------ *  * Device Status       : 0000001F *  * Firmware Base Number: 00000001 *  * Firmware Revision   : 00000041 *  * Board Revision      : 00000041 *  ********************************** ...Exit OEMInit() Extension DRAM: Start=0x82000000, Size=0x02000000 Sp=ffffc7cc Datalight FlashFX Pro v1.11 Build 856 Copyright (c) 1993-2004 Datalight, Inc. Patents: US#5860082, US#6260156. FFX: A9000000 = CreateStaticMapping( 61000000, 01000000 ) FlashFX SDK License ID #5B2C08D8 Created Thread 63F62F82 Datalight Reliance v1.13.0337 Copyright (c) 2003 - 2005 Datalight, Inc. Registered to #6A48B493  FSH_Init : Entry  - Manufacturer: 0x00890089, Identity: 0x881B881B  - Block Size:   0x00040000, Capacity: 0x02000000  FSH_Init : Done Ethernet Address: (from EEPROM) = 6000 010C 38C2
  PCCard: Initializing .... Initialize Successful! DIO: Initializing Digital I/O Driver v1.1...Intialized! ATAPI: DSK_Init ActiveKey = Drivers\Active\24 Initializing CAN Driver v1.7... ok (47ms) ATAPI: DSK_Init ActiveKey = Drivers\Active\29  - Unable to init port class: 8 USBHost(OHCD.c)HcdPdd_Init: Intializing USBHost(OHCD.c)HcdPdd_Init: Initialization successful WAV_Init: AudioDriver::Initialize + SSP_Init (Drivers\Active\34):  - Initialized. Init Raster engine Use display settings from ADSLOAD.HWT. Clearing screen memset of video Returning from DDI init MatrixKeyPad init ... BACKLIGHT.CPP - ThreadBacklightControl():         The Matrix keypad is enable!  - Initiated. Layout Manager successfully initialized
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applied Data Systems Sphere Windows CE Ver. 5.00.23 Sphere_Core --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Fatal Stack Error, Terminating thread 83e23d1c, pexi = c203f5a4 Exception 'Data Abort' Thread=83e23d1c AKY=00000037 PC=03fc3f08 BVA=c2040000  R0=c2040000  R1=fefefefe  R2=000000e5  R3=c203f76c  R4=fefefefe  R5=fefefefe  R6=fefefefe  R7=fefefefe  R8=fefefefe  R9=fefefefe R10=fefefefe R11=fefefefe R12=fefefefe  SP=c203f5e0  Lr=000000fe Psr=2000001f
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                 cbadr 
                 
                
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                       Posted - 19 Sep 2008 :  16:41:31
                        
                        
                      
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                      |  The suggestion to this customer was to format FlashFX either from the boot menu, or by loading a CE image with a different size than the existing one, which would trigger a format of the FlashFX disk. This has solved the problem. | 
                     
                    
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