Ok, I've had it with Trap e messages. I reformatted and reinstalled and getting my box back, and all was well again, so I thought. Trap e with removable media. I tried the solution based upon the device driver 2 updates, but no luck! I've had this problem for 3 months. This is the first time in 10+ yrs, I am 99% going to abandon OS/2 as my primary OS at home, and sticking with W2k Pro. Help, if not say farewell! -pipes

Mainly my system went into Trap when the wrong drivers were installed. You'll have to uninstall the wrong drivers by eleminating all its references into the config.sys, I am sure you have several config.bak or.else to which go back to and start the system to reasonable working and eliminate the problem. Also load up with Alt+F2 at start-up and see the faulty driver causing the Trap ciao, os2power

I tracked it down to DaniATAPI driver, as IBM's original CD Drivers work. I will try to work with it and get down parms in config.sys to make it work.

Not sure but if I remember right The Dani's have to be placed before a cartain line into config.sys and rem the IBM's ciao, os2power

I tracked it down and got it stabilized. I had to rethink things as I removed my SCSI card, my IRQs got reassigned and USB stopped working... I still get Trap Es, but need to track them down. I get them using apps that don't access physical devices, like surf the web. Truly odd.

(I hope I don't jinx myself) I determined it was IRQ and PCI cards. Odd that there were no reports of problems, with Hardware manager nor boot up. I reinstalled again from scratch and then messed around with cards. I no longer needed my Adaptec 2930CU SCSI card, as my scsi devices died off. I have an Asus KXT133-C AMD mobo, with 5 PCI slots and sharing of interrupts. I originally had: AGP <share A> PCI TV Tuner <share A> <empty> 3COM NIC <stand alone IRQ> SCSI <share B> SBLive <share B> <share B> == USB onboard This worked, until my SCSI devices died (long story), and my SCSI didn't pick up any devices, but booted fine. I then tried to remove my SCSI and move around my SBlive card and not the others, no luck. I then tried the following combo: AGP <share A> PCI TV Tuner <share A> <empty> <share A/C> SBLive <stand alone IRQ> 3COM <share B> <empty> <share B> <share B> == USB onboard Works. Talk about grief. I got a trap 6 when installing Lotus WordPro, and didn't install it after reboot, and trap 6 once when opening Mozilla.

I wanted to update everyone here as my story has been successfully ended with finding and eliminating the cause: bad memory, in addition to IRQ conflicts. The bad memory showed its ugly head when I started using Windows on the same box, different partition. I started using each stick individually and then found the bad one. Some apps write and read from certain areas and that caused the crash, typically Trap 0006 with occasional trap e. My box is very stable now and I got all the items I need; USB and CD Recording/Writing. I also figured out working with CDRW as it was my first time in OS/2: unclose last session, then blank. It took some time. Nero was very quick and one click. Thanks. for listening!