BTW, it's essentially impossible to permanently kill or "brick" an Empeg other than by physically or electrically destroying the hardware. (Unlike some consumer electronics which can be "bricked" by, say, unplugging the power during a firmware upgrade.) Whatever happens to the disk, it can be recovered by a builder image. Whatever happens to the flash, other than the protected boot-block, can be recovered by applying a new upgrade. And the protected boot-block cannot be overwritten without unsoldering a PCB link.

Peter