Hi, This is (I think/hope) a curiosity question rather than a problem. I am running a kernel.org 2.4.3 kernel on my 7.0 system. I have an Adaptec SCSI card that runs under the AIC7xxx driver. When I access my scanner (an ageing Umax Vista s6E), I see this in my log: linux kernel: (scsi0:A:5:0): refuses synchronous negotiation. Using asynchronous transfers Apr 7 11:26:35 linux last message repeated 21 times There is no similar problem with my scsi cd. This does not seem to be causing a deterioration in transfer rates or any other problems, and maybe scanners are inherently asynchronous, but I don't recall seeing the message before switching to this kernel, in which the AIC7xxx driver is new. Any observations ? Thanks, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com