The woes of your 18Gb drive won't be affecting Hyperterminal access. Can you try it with a different cable, or using a different serial port or PC?

I brought my disassembled player to work, hooked it up to my computer there, and had no difficulty getting the shell prompt.

I have no explanation of why I could get a shell prompt at home Saturday afternoon, but by Saturday night I could not.

The player is in the process of copying everything from my 18GB drive over to my new 40 GB drive (thanks to a little bit of ICQ help from Bitt!) and has been doing so for about two hours now. Uhhh... anybody have any idea how long it will take to transfer about 15.5 GB of data?

tanstaafl.