Hope this is the appropriate list; there isn't much mention of this in anything 
recent. A Dell 2800 runs fine but logs this during disk to disk 
backups when a job first starts up (directory with around 50,000 files 
gets backed up with tar and gzip). File operation succeeds. Later a much larger 
directory is done with no log message:

Jan 14 03:16:15 mx1 /netbsd: sd0(mpt0:0:0:0): unable to allocate scsipi_xfer
Jan 14 03:16:15 mx1 /netbsd: sd0(mpt0:0:0:0): unable to allocate scsipi_xfer
Jan 14 03:16:15 mx1 last message repeated 339 times

The box does not seem to be affected; the error will occur on either drive 
(there are only 2). Is this something that could be problematic?

__Stef

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