I am writing from Senegal, Africa where when something doesn't work, there is no place to fix it. I am a radio reporter, have used my Sony MZ-RH1 for 9 months and 2 days ago it suddenly stopped recording. Have checked everything and can't seem to figure out why it suddenly died. I am losing hope of getting it to ever record again, but I am curious why it died such a sudden death, and has this happened to anyone out there? Any autopsy findings that can help me come to peace with this sudden minidisc aneuryism??