Thank you for these ideas. I will have to look at the offsets again tonight, just to make sure that they look right.
The new machine is booted off the old venti, so the executables are the same on both. The new machine is a VIA. I will try again without dma. I will also add in the bloom partition, but I'm low on memory at the moment (256MB doesn't sound low to me, but I find the new venti can be a bit greedy if not constrained), so I'm not sure if that is actually worth doing. I will read the venti man pages more slowly to understand better. I will also try the dd approach to do a simple test of the disk. Thanks again, Robby
