• Obviously, your Hyperterminal closing cannot have anything to do with empeg. It is just a serial terminal emulator.
  • 'Bad pump...' problem as well as the disk not being visible are probably due to infamous bad IDE cable. I am in the same situation - awaiting replacement (they are out of them currently - David says they will have more next week).
  • ftp segfaults are probably also there due to the disk drive being pulled out from under its feet. However, just in case, run a memory test once you get Hyperterminal running (IIRC, ctrl-T the moment you switch the power on)
  • I am not sure whether that is necessary, but try enabling swap when copying (swapon /dev/hda6/)
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