Greetings!

Sorry for the delay - busy weekend.

Heat should not be a factor, or at least it is not a factor for me.

It is possible that there is something going on with the drive, but what it is I do not know. The directories that you created were the /drive0/fids and the /drive0/var directories.

I can only guess that there could be some error on the hard drive, or an error on the filesystem that was created. What might be a possibility is to do an fsck on the hard disk. Try the following:

# rwm
# swapon /swapfile
# fsck /drive0 (Note: this may take a while...)
# swapoff /swapfile
# rom
# exit
- try another sync

This will do a file system analysis similar to scandisk under Windows. It should show any errors, and also clean up any errors on your disk. [disclaimer] This should help, but, like any analysis too, can cause damage as it tries to repair things. I have not seen it happen with this tool, but you never know. [/disclaimer].

This test is actually performed every 30? syncs, when emplode does its disk checking.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)
SN# 030103046 (10GB Blue - Emergency Spare)