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Any Owners know what to do or is there an unfixable problem?
Thanks.

Bring your empeg inside with you when you leave the car.

Some hard drives will start in colder temperatures. What brand drive do you have? I find that Fujitsu drives are some of the more tempermental ones.

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I don't wish to be churlish, the player is in the car tonight and it's too cold to collect.

You have "South Cambridge" as your location, but I'm not sure whether you mean Cambridge UK or Cambridge MA My empeg is almost always left in my car overnight in Cambridge UK and I've never had a problem with start up.

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Aren't the EMPEGs specified to work from, say -10 to +55C

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and the factory harddrives able to cope in a British winter?

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[orange]We considered various heating options.....

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My empeg is almost always left in my car overnight in Cambridge UK

Noted. What car have you got again?

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My empeg is almost always left in my car overnight in Cambridge UK

Noted. What car have you got again?

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Having a remote car starter may be simpler than the system you describe - let the car warm for 5 minutes on a cold day (or cool on a hot day), by the time you get into it the empeg would be warm/cool enough to operate. ...

Hmm, interesting.
But I'd have to modify my Empeg install. Currently the unit is powered on during a car start, then if I've left the player 'off' it will shut down again (sleep mode) after boot up. Otherwise it wakes to the state I've left it in.
I'd have to run power to the empeg from a switchable source- not the ignition controlled source.
... if I understand all of this correctly in the first place, that is...

Sure glad the SF Bay Area doesn't freeze much.

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is there anyway i can back up the music on my empeg directly onto another HDD without that HDD being installed in another device?

Well, the HDD will need to be installed in some kind of device

Seriously, though, you could put the new hard disk in the empeg, copy the tracks across, and then take the new disk out and stash it somewhere safe.

If you can get hold of a 3.5"-to-2.5" converter, and you've got a Linux box, or a copy of Cygwin, you can follow my rsync on empeg page to back up your empeg to a PC.

Just follow the instructions except that you use your PC as the destination instead of another empeg.

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Except that the Microsoft OS doesn't seem to have any normal way to do raw writes to a hard disk.

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If you GET /dev/hda, you'll end up with a file called hda that is an image of the empeg's hard disk. You should be able to PUT /dev/hda later, no?

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Wait, isn't there a file-size limit in Windows? Can you make an 80-gig file?

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Wait, isn't there a file-size limit in Windows? Can you make an 80-gig file?

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Excellent. What are the exact FTP commands you're using?

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Actually, Mark, will the NFS server work if the disk has just been replaced?

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Although I have a related question: Should the player software be exited out to the shell prompt before doing a full-disk PUT operation? And if so, is there a hijack command that'll do that for me via the FTP command-line interface, similar to the SITE RO and SITE RW commands?

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I think Bitt once figured out the correct FTP SITE EXEC for that.

SITE EXEC kill -2 `ps ax | grep player | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1;}'`

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SITE EXEC kill -2 `ps ax | grep player | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1;}'`

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SITE EXEC kill -2 `ps ax | grep -v grep | awk '/player/{print $1;}'`

SITE EXEC kill -2 `ps ax | awk '/player/{print $1;}'`

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Well, if you're going to do that, you probably don't need the other grep either.

SITE EXEC kill -2 `set $(ps ax | grep player | grep -v grep); echo $1`

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What grep? There are no greps left.

SITE EXEC kill -2 `set $(ps ax | grep [p]layer); echo $1`