Yeah... my drive is dead. Or it's the headers, I haven't pulled it apart to check, yet. What I have noticed, is that when the player starts the boot sequence, and can't find the hard drive, it no longer turns off when the ignition is turned off -- the only way to power off the player is pull the sled. Why doesn't it power off? Is that because the proper loss-of-power handling code is in the kernel, which is supposed to come from disk?