<Anyway, concerning the uVAX SCSI/DMA code, seeing as <1, the SCSI code works most of the time, and <2, retrying when it fails clears the problem (most of the time), <why not patch the DMA code to retry an operation instead of failing <and returning SIGSEGV? Of course, this will get you when something actua <fails, but could it be tried? Err, how about fixing the scsi code so it works correctly and only flagging fatal errors or warnings where warrented. This would remove a lot of "soft" errors and likely clean up other problems as well. Allison