The Empeg was not in standby. The "end of playlist" message was on screen each time I did a synch. Does this make a difference? It sure doesn't when only one of the drives is in the unit. I must admit I haven't tried synching with the unit in standby yesterday, but I did during the last month when the Hd's were setup like 48g master, 10g slave and that didn't do any good for the problem. The "heat lookalike problem" persisted.

For now I'm working with only the 48gig in the unit, but I'll add a second 48gig drive to that because one 48gig is not enough for me. (actually I need about 3 gigs more, so the 10gig would have been perfect - bummer)