This is an error that occurs infrequently (only twice in the last couple of months of recording an average of an hour or so per night), but it's very annoying when it does. Using tzap -r and cat, cat dies with: cat: /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0: Value too large for defined data type I first saw this error when using a cvs version of tzap with built-in file writing abilities, so I thought it must be a problem with that, and reverted to using release 1.1.0 of the dvb-apps with cat, but it happened again, so I must just have been unlucky when trying the newer tzap, and the problem lies elsewhere. Anyhow, I have a Hauppauge Nova-T model 900 (eeprom=90002, tuner 76) and I'm running kernel 2.6.12-rc3 with the appropriate patches from bytesex, plus realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc3-V0.7.46-02, though the first time it happened was probably with an earlier kernel. Any suggestions? J?n -- J?n Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk