The cable looks fine, and I checked for broken sodering points (as you mentioned) last night, and could not find anything. I pulled into work, player was playing fine as it always has, went out hours later, and it was not working. Either way, I am leaning towards it being a bad drive, but I will reinspect it tonight.

I used to have a 20G running hijack and sold it with the car it was in. I liked the features of it, but never really got around to updating this player.

I have been shopping for drives, and I have a question. I have been looking at 20+ GB IBM Travelstar drives on ebay and elsewhere, and one I found, 32g, (ebay item 6841313393) says it is ultraDMA ATA-4 interface. I am wondering if this is some kind of different drive from ebay item 6842863415). The FAQ menioned that most any drive should work, but like SCSI, there are different pin and cable configurations, and I wondered if some of the laptop drives were like this as well.

Thanks again!