That information could help empeg design better shock mounts in the future.

Actually, since I have a Mark 1, they already did improve the shock mounts on the Mark 2's. The problem with the Mk1 shock mounts is that the rubber bits tended to pop out of the mounting holes. This doesn't happen on the Mk2s.

I agree that there's a possibiliy that the disk failed because it's spent a portion of its life without shock protection. But I'm not concerned with the loss of the disk drive at all. Small disk drives like that are cheap and very easy to replace. My only concern is trying to rescue what files I can off of that hard disk, if that's even possible. Anyone have any more tips on what I should be trying?

I attempted to get to the "bad" drive1 from the shell prompt, no go. It lets me "cd /drive1" but there's no files or folders in it.

Wow, I only have 357 songs on the player now- less than a quarter of its original files. This is rather sad. Oh well, that's 297 more songs for the trip home tonight than I would have had with a CD changer.



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Tony Fabris