Anyone have any idea where to get a laptop sized drive jumper? I've been having issues w/ my 2 drive empeg and I think it's because of my rigged up jumper (I couldnt' find a real one). In the meantime I'm down to a 1 drive system... anyone know of a place to get extras? The local Compusa, etc. didn't have any on the floor or in the repair desk.

From the Drive Upgrade Guide:

Note that it must be the correct size jumper, which is 2mm. If you use the wrong size jumper, for example, if you use a 2.54mm jumper, you might get intermittent problems where the jumper loses contact because the grippers on the jumper are too large for the pins on the disk drive. According to Hugo, the correct jumpers are sold by Farnell, part numbers 510920 (blue), 510932 (black) and 510944 (red). For the US, the Jameco part number is reportedly 119263.

Try Digikey. They have the 2mm jumpers you need. Search for part number "A26244"

Stu

Now I'm not condoning this, but... I stripped the plastic off a large jumper and using a small table-mounted vice, I squeezed the jumper by about 0.5 mm. I could then put the jumper on the drive snugly and secured it with a really tiny blob of silicone sealant. It's performed perfectly for three months. I checked it recently and it hasn't budged a nanometre.

The only reason I did this was because it was 2230, I had an empeg in pieces, I had to go out and couldn't bear a silent car!

I did something similar when I got my extra drive, I took a typical stranded 16g wire, pulled out one strand and threaded it figure 8 around the two terminals. Well, after about 3 months the empeg would occasionally pull up the "no hard disk support found, contact support" for just an instant when the "Risky Business" Penguin would zoom by. It would stick on the logo screen (Jeep in my case).

Pulling out either other drives from the drives from the cable would make it work normally (except for missing songs/playlists). It could be something else, but that was the most logical point to check. Just seeing where the easiest place to get an extra might be since my Jerry-rig didn't work.

I've got hundreds of them. email me your address.