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In article <9LmmXLA2$j+xEAqR@turnpike.com>
           richard@turnpike.com "Richard Clayton" writes:

> Tuning.faq does not contain the advice "disable IDE block mode transfer"
> which seems to cure a lot of systems. If this is possible on your
> machine it will be an option in the BIOS.

If only!  At the time I bought the PC with its *massive*
528Mb disk, I wondered if I'd gone a bit OTT.  How quickly
times change...

But back on topic, I've spent a while today going through
smtpserv.c and am convinced there's "room for improvement"
(as the kids' teachers note frequently:( ) not to mention 
fixing the erroneous end-of-message handling bug that John 
(or was it Graham?) found earlier.

My real problem, and that of lots of others I guess from the
number of postings of h/w overruns, is the (relatively) puny 
16 byte fifo in the 16550.  No doubt in the not too distant
future this lack of buffering will be scorned in much the
same way as the 8250 is today, but in the meantime anything
that can be done in ka9q to mitigate this shortcoming must
IMHO be a Good Thing.
-- 
Pete