Yeah, my apologies for putting this on the back burner. Hijack has a telnetd built-in, which can be enabled by putting "ktelnetd_port=23" into the "[hijack]" section of the player's config.ini file.

For the adapter, I don't yet know what's wrong, and haven't made the time to investigate yet. But I have seem similar behaviour with some adapters in the past, and might still have one on hand that misbehaves like that. So.. there's hope.

With luck, it's just a timing thing: SSDs respond _instantly_ to stuff that takes milliseconds with mechanical drives, and something may just not be ready for that as soon as it ought to be.

Cheers