On 2/10/06, Peter Barada wrote: > Any suggestions for a general solution that can be proven to properly > recover for a power failure at *any* point in the process? Nope :-( I don't think your solution is a general solution, but I didn't say it didn't work. I think the best solution is having an NMI power fail interrupt and using that (small) amount of time to shutdown cleanly. Jon.