Greetings!

I installed two 48GB Travelstars. I did not run into too much of a problem... Let's see...

I agree that there may be bugs with the builder software. One comment, though, is that I did not have any problem with it. What bugs there are, I do not know, but I have not seen any yet. I would like to get an official builder that is large drive ready, though.

I do remember trouble with the builder, but of getting a bad copy. The one I downloaded seemed to have problems, so I downloaded a fresh copy, and it worked fine. I have a copy that I know worked - I keep a series of tools on the music partition, so I can reinstall at need. The builder is one of them. I can post or email if you need it.

I strongly recommend you use the builder, if possible, over manually creating partitions. Especially if you are not very familiar with Linux. It will do some disk checks and burn in for you automatically.

You are correct in doing one drive at a time. No jumpers for the IBM is "master", so the cable position should not matter. When I did mine, it was in the position nearest the controller on the cable.

I did not notice anything with the drive spin. Sorry. I would assume it should be spinning, though.

As to wiping out the old drive, if you want it completely clean you can wipe the partitions. If you want to just remove the music files, just delete everything in the /fids directory and resync.

You can load developer or consumer over each other as needed. It will not affect the music partitions.

Give me a shout if you run into problems or would like that version of the builder.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)
SN# 030103046 (10GB Blue - Emergency Spare)