Mcomb :

I've just tried what you've suggested, but looking into the drive1/fids directory now shows that there ARE files present. (I've been continuously uploading files to the player, if only half an hour at a time).
The sbin /df /drive1 command also shows 7% used.
I've tried manually copying a file from one HD to the other and this works no problem.

Paul,
I've tried those commands you've said. I think everything worked ok. This is what hypertrm showed :

Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# rwm
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapon /swapfile
Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -3)
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck /drive0
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda4 is mounted.
/dev/hda4 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda4: 10490/5849088 files (5.4% non-contiguous), 9447483/11693311 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapoff /swapfile
empeg:/empeg/bin# rom
empeg:/empeg/bin# exit
logout
Shell exit
Starting player
empeg-car 1.03.

Ok, so last night I went to bed, but I let the empeg play. When I got up this morning it had played for 9 hrs. I immediately fired up emplode and uploaded a file. The problem popped up immediately, convincing me more and more that this has something to do with heat.
The next thing I'll do now is open the player up again and only connect the 10gig drive. If my theory is correct this one should not have any problems with uploads.

I'll get back to you and will send an email to support@empeg while I'm at it.

Riocar 58gig (48gig + 10gig IBM travelstar) S/N : 10101747 red