Sorry Arnold
It was only after I printed your request and deleted the message that I
realised that the printout didn't contain your E-Mail address.
Hope you pick this up and can let me have your address again.
But anyway:
I did load the oss449a patch without any problems.
I've taken my system in and out of SMP several times, just by unloading the
software from scoadmin.
I'm still awaiting a usable bios upgrade so as yet I've been unable to
progress any further with my problem.
All the best
Ian Mc.