Has anyone tried copying the FID's as if doing a drive upgrade?

Sortof... I had a MkI with 10+18GB, then I bought a MkIIa with a 10GB disk + a separate 30GB disk.

At the end I had 30+18GB with all the music that originally was in the MkI in the MkIIa and 10+10GB empty in the MkI (as it was destined for my mothers car).

I first removed the 10G disk from the MkIIa and installed and initiated the 30G disk in it instead. Then I (one after the other) mounted the disks from the MkI as the slave disk in the MkIIa and copied all fids from /drive1 to /drive0. Wiped and initiated the 10 and 18G disks from the MkI, installed the 18G in the MkIIa and the two 10G in the MkI. Synced to rebuild the database and everything worked.

But disk to disk copying in the empeg isn't very fast either... left the 18G disk copying overnight and then started the 10G in the morning and left it 'til sometime in the afternoon.

/Michael