OK, here's what I've got with my MkII so far.
Was running 11c/Developer image.
1.) During a sync of even the smallest amount (trying to configure ethernet), it would Error in stage 5
2.) During an EmpegClone attempt, it would either:
a.) be "unable to talk to a unit that claims to be connected" or
b.) look like its going to start writing to the MkII, and then crap out with an error message that I would expect from Microsoft but not from Empeg: "Failure: -2" --- nice and cryptic. Thanks.

Overall, I'd love to report on how things are going, but I can't get very far with it yet.

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