Hi,
I have an empeg MKII(not a), which I bought used about a year ago from a guy on this board. He said when he'd sold it that the drive failed and had been replaced under warranty (to explain why the warranty seals were broken, I guess). A few months after I got it the replacement (30gb IBM) died, so I bought a cheap 10gb, also an IBM, locally and replaced it. That drive died this March, and I grabbed the drive out of an old dead laptop a friend had sitting around, a 4gb Toshiba. This drive is now dead too. All were confirmed dead by plugging into a laptop, which won't detect any of them. The 30gb IBM makes a nasty clicking noise, the 10 I threw away a while ago and don't remember what it was doing, and the toshiba is quiet.

Do I just have really really really nasty luck, or could something in my empeg be messed up and killing hard drives? or am I potentially doing something to cause it? It's got the little washers under the mounting screws, they were already there when I took the first dead drive out. I'd like to fix the thing but I'm out of free drives and I'm not all that keen to spend a bunch of money on a new one if it's just going to die in a few months. Any suggestions would be appreciated.