Well, I just had some installation work done on my car, and now my Empeg takes a very long time to load. It sits at the "Loading music databases..." part for a long time.
I connected to the player with HyperTerminal, and while it's loading the music databases, it shows messages like this:

hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 4116
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success

Any ideas?