The saga continues.

I've been just listening to the radio without any mp3's loaded on the unit and came to do that yesterday but cannot.
Emplode doesn't likeit, it quits with a message along the lines of: Failed to open tags (0xc0041002)

So I deleted the partitions on the drive and used Mark's version 10 of the big disk builder. Previously I'd used version 3 and heeded the warnings about it being experiemental.
I also used his build of the code with hijack 488 preinstalled.
Worked fine, but still I get the same message.

For whatever reason it's not liking this 160Gb drive.
I looked over the partitions are suggested in other threads:

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/306417
http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/311430

But giving in for now.

I'm about to swap down to a 120Gb, but happy to debug if it'll help people out in the future. I can stick it into a spare empeg for testing.

I'm hoping the 120Gb will work ok.

The original 20Gb which came out of it works fine.