Thats the first time I had my empeg hooked up while it failed while changing songs so I don't know it it's always the same drive that does it. This might sound stupid, but it hasn't done it since I updated to the newest Hijack kernal. I was running V325. I'm sure it's just a coincidence and that it will fail again in my car. It seems to do it most when the weather is humid. At least I have it narrowed down to, the ide connector, the cable or one (or both) of the drives). At most, two new drives would cost about $200 and if I upgrade about $275 (or more)...