Ack. The IDE cable has come off my MK2 again...the mode in which it originally arrived. :(

I haven't even subjected it to the environment of my vehicle yet (trusted installer is back next week), just my briefcase and desktop.

I didn't tape or glue or anything when I was instructed by empeg that I could open the unit and re-seat the cable the first time around, but this time, I used a loop of duct-tape (p.s.: not "duck") to affix the free/unused end of the cable to the empty flat of the drive tray.

If people aren't experiencing this when their unit arrived, they will soon shortly after driving around with it.

I guess another reliable fix would be to fasten the free end of the cable to another drive. Too bad it'd have to go back to Cambridge for that.

[wild speculation]

Its a 12GB Toshiba drive in mine, is there any chance that the pins are slightly smaller than spec, causing the IDE connector to seat less tightly?

[/wild speculation]

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MK2 #141, green, 12GB