Thanks for your long reply!

Were you synching over USB or ethernet?

Ethernet

It sounds like your primary master disk is a dead duck, bin it and get another one.

I was afraid you'd say that.

If it clicks (the heads pulling in) and doesn't spin up,

that's exactly what it sounds like!

Is the drive a Fujitsu?

No, it's the original IBM; travelstar that came with the unit.

Did you notice any smells like burning?

No, nothing out of the ordinary. After I pressed the button, it seemed to boot just fine, but then I got the error message. No other warnings.

I would remove both drives. Re-install only the 30G. Make SURE that you have got the cable correctly positioned on both the main board and the drive. Power on the empeg and observe what it says on the screen and also in the serial log. You should use the connector on the end of the cable for the drive, not the middle one, to ensure the drive will function in case the cable is a faulty one (pink stripe with black connectors).

Did it exactly as you wrote it and the log is the same as the one I posted above.

You should verify the cble is good by seeing if the other drive powers and spins up on the same cable connector:

I did, it does.

Thanks again for all your help. Seems like I need to upload most of my tunes from scratch and then get a new drive.