I think my IDE cable is going bad. I got into the truck yesterday and the empeg reported no HDD found. I opened it up and all the connections were tight and then it booted fine.
I added a bunch of music and it seems to be stuck in the synch. Ironically it's stuck on a song called "Can't Happen Here..." so the status window says "Writing Can't Happen Here..."
Hmmm now I just got a warning of connection timed out for that song, and it appears stuck for the rest of the tracks as well.

Is this behavior a symptom of IDE drive cable failure? Are there still spares available?

Thanks!