Greetings!

I know the 48GB drives seem a lot more tempermental. I personally had success with the old version of the builder, but I was using a Mark2, not the 2a. That error had come up on the second drive, but I was able to go ahead with the build, and (after loading the developer kernel and looking around) loaded everything up.

The bug with sync under 2.0b3 is with a lot of large drives, more likely to happen with USB. I think there might be timing issues with the larger drives, expecting the player to respond more quickly and having it time out while the drive is still doing its thing. I know that the sync bug is a known bug, FITNR. I personally would like to see some of the timeouts increased, especially where reboots are needed. When you have a lot more drive space to work with, you need the time to finish your housekeeping.

I find the player takes a bit more time to boot / rebuild databases, but I have not had any operational problems with the combination.

You will find the extra space very nice indeed!!!

If you run into problems, send me email. It has been a while, but I might be able to help.