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try zeroing the partition first. The player code does single sector I/O usually on the scratch partition, and that isn't good enough since the drive itself only reads/writes tracks.

Ah, good point. FWIW, to zero the saved playlist and the bookmarks, without touching the tuner or EQ settings, or the per-track dynamic data, you need the command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 bs=512 count=2048; if you've done the new set-max-fid hack, you'll also need dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 bs=512 seek=2176 count=1920.

Peter