Okay, I got the cable connectors recrimped until a new cable arrives. At first it wasn't working, but after I pushed down on the connector that goes to the motherboard it started working.

However when I boot up the player, it sees no songs. But if I drop to shell and list the contents of the "fids" directories on both drives, I see that all the songs are still there. I resynchronized with the emplode application, I could see all the songs with emplode, but after the synchronizing it still has 0 songs on the playlist. Is there something that I can do to fix this? Thanks.