Simple. Precise. Absolutely lethal.
At 03:12 the continuous run ticked past a million verified writes without a single checksum mismatch. The red LED breathed back to green.
Mara’s hands moved as fast as her mind. She proposed a software workaround: ensure buffer allocations never straddled descriptor banks; pad allocations so DMA scatter lists couldn't overlap descriptor memory; enforce strict memory barriers and ownership flags. It was inelegant, a surgical bandage over a flawed flow, but it bought time.