John Mendenhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, based on these logs, from different openbsd cd versions, > my hypothesis is there is some weird sort of hardware problem. > My question is, what tools do you all use to determine where > the hardware problem could be?
google turns up a few references on various BSD mailing list for the search string "OpenBSD ffs_valloc: dup alloc". No clear cut solutions, but the popular suspicion runs in the direction of buggy (S)ATA controllers or, of course, possibly subtle, hard to trigger bugs in the operating system's controller support code. Swapping out motherboards could be unpleasant, but seeing that the error occurs at pretty much exactly the same spot on the CDs, have you tried swapping out the CD/DVD drive for a different unit? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
