Okay, it was D5 as it has been before if I recall. How is it you can infer the fault of a single bit from a series of mismatches in the IDE test? 0xffff ----> 0xffdf and 0x5555 ----> 0xff55 imply several bits are off do they not?

In any case, thanks again for your help.
Stu
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