H140 Boot time

[naboonaboo]

Hi
have a question on my rockboxed H140

the boot time to get into a playing situation (i have resume last played switched on) is taking upto and sometimes over 30 seconds

Is this correct
I have defragged the hard drive and turned the directory cache on

Is there anything else I can do to bring the boot time down or do i live with it

[DD]

That sounds an unusually long boot time and you are on the right track with defragging the drive. I can't think of anything else, so sorry I can't really help you much more there...

...BUT!!!...

...if you're feeling a bit more daring, you could try the new/experimental iriver flashing business where the Rockbox files are flashed to the flash-chip along with the bootloader (so its a hell of a lot quicker to read the firmware from flash than off a disk). I think on the whole everything related to this has been pretty successful so far and quite a few people are trying it (but don't hold me responsible for anything ) so it might be worth a look...
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/vie...IriverFlashing

[naboonaboo]

thanks for the reply
I also have an H120 which takes about 5 secs to boot so there must be a fault somewhere along the line for the h140

I will take a look at the flash you suggest anyway as it sounds very interesting and I wont hold you responsible for anything..........I promise

[HorstIriver]

Originally Posted by naboonaboo

thanks for the reply
I also have an H120 which takes about 5 secs to boot so there must be a fault somewhere along the line for the h140

I will take a look at the flash you suggest anyway as it sounds very interesting and I wont hold you responsible for anything..........I promise

Don't try to upgrade the firmware before you have made sure that your hard drive is OK because flashing a corrupt HEX file is fatal. 30s is definitely too long. There is a setting within Rockbox that tells Rockbox that it should check the contents of your drive and refresh the tagcache each time you power on. Could it be that you have enabled that feature? That could explain the long boot time. Personally I refresh the tagcache manually after having made some changes - because it happens rarely. Have you already checked your drive using the tests of Windows, or chkdsk? Does the drive make any strange noises during boot, like clicks or rattle?
Horst

[cosmocat]

I can surely tell you that there is a problem.
A H120 and a H140 are the same player and should start in the same time.
My H140 start in 7s.

When you start your player, rockbox starts, begin to play the song and after load in memory the directory cahc or the tagcache so it must not be impact your startup time.

My only advice is to do a scandisk of your drive (perhaps some bad sector in your drive), delete entirely your rockbox directory (after saving your configuration file) and reinstall rockbox.
And in the last time, if none of that works and if you could, format and recopy your music file into your player.

[naboonaboo]

thanks for all the advice
I removed the rockbox I had on it and installed the latest daily build now everything is working fine now and its about 7s for a boot into the "last playing track"