I am using gcc version 3.3 20030623 (Red Hat Linux 3.3-12) so that may be to blame... ...but I have received the bellow oopses while copying files to a "Device-Mapper" striped device with 'tar cf - . | tar - -C /mnt/tmp' oops1: reiserfs format device (with BadRAM patch) oops2: ext2/3 format device (with BadRAM patch) oops3: reiserfs format device (with mem=320M BadRAM patch removed. Kernel 2.6.0-test1-mm1 (with latest device-mapper patches) was used with these oopses however I have had a similar oops though while using device-mapper (I was compiling glibc) with 2.6.0-test1: 2.6.0-test1.oops While using 2.6.0-test1-ac1 to attempt the same procedure as described above USB was killed: uhci-bad Also attached dmesg and .config used for 2.6.0-test1-mm1 Now having said all of that, I should add that the system runs completely stable under a modified Red Hat 2.4.20-9 (ACPI patch amoung other things) also compiled with the same compiler. The hardware in this machine is: Intel P3 (coppermine stepping 10) 933MHz BIOSTAR M6VBE-A (VIA Apollo Pro 133 based) 384MiB 256+128 (with defect in last 64MiB of 128MiB) 133MHz ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/