I just installed my new drive cable after getting a unit with a faulty one. It's now perfect as far as drive access and booting goes. Phew. :)

Last night I had the empeg (mk2a) connected to my DLINK 8-port 10/100 Switch. The only other device on the network active at the time was my Win2K machine, connected with a 3Com 100mbit NIC.

I started a large sync (many many GB's of music files). I noticed that I was getting a lot of collisions during the upload - which I have noticed every other time as well. I have previously only done a handful of songs at a time for testing purposes.

Whiel I was asleep, and after about 2GB of transfers, I received a sync error 5 with a result code of all ff. I had actually received the exact same error last week during a test whith a small group of files (maybe 2GB as well...) A that time it seemed that all the music had been transfered OK.

This time, all the destination folders were on the empeg, but of course all the files after the first 2GB were missing.

I've got the transfer going with USB right now at home. Don't know if it will be finished when I get home (may still be running or may have stopped - I'll only find out in about 9 hours).

I'd really like any suggestions/tips for getting my Ethernet connection up to speed. USB is about half the transfer speed on the empeg (expected behaviour). This is fine for a couple of songs, but not very nice with multiple gigs.

On a sidenote, when I plugged the empeg into USB, it knocked out my USB keyboard. I had to change my keyboard to a different port to get it back online (ASUS A7V with 5 USB ports: Sandisk SM reader, MS Intellimouse Explorer, MS Internet Keyboard Pro and the empeg (keybord has two USB MS game controllers connected to it)).

Thanks guys.

Bruno