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Don, I can come pretty close to the configuration you mentioned. We are running AMI EISA Motherboards with AMI EISA SCSI cache conrollers, the controllers are running various amounts of ram. All of our systems have at least 64 megs of ram on the MB, but we have still found ourselves paging to disk, We've never had any problems with them. On the hard disk side we're running arrays of Fujitsu 1.2 and 1.7 gig drives, so except for the ALR machine we're pretty much running the same sorts of systems. My first looks would be at the EISA setup fields, to make sure that the MB is accessing everything correctly and that the controller card is fully configured with the correct !*.cfg and !*.ovr files. I can't emphasize enough how important these files are to the system integrity when utilizing an EISA bus. Also you may want to make sure that if he is utilizing a SCSI-2 interface that the drive is setup to run under SCSI-2. We've had people in the past configure their controllers for 32 bit SCSI-2 and still run drives under a standard SCSI protocol. We do have at least one ALR EISA machine around here, so if you can't get the problem solved, let me know and I'll see if we can't swap some boards around here and duplicate your setup more closely. Paul