>I managed to capture the message exactly as it appears when my kernel
>panics hanging on my BusLogic 747:

  >> I'm using a bt747s since Oct. '93 together with NetBSD-current. No problem
  >> at all, until yesterday (I got a brand new bt747s for my second NetBSD
  >> system). With this new bt747s I got a similar message.

  >> I verified both bt747s and the only difference I found: 
  >> they have different firmware and bios revisions

  >> firmware 3.31, bios 4.50: everything works for me since Oct. '93
  >> firmware 3.37, bios 4.70: NetBSD-current doesn't work for me

  >> Using the old firmware and bios EPROMS together with the new bt747s
  >> fixed the problem for me.

I struggled through the same problem last week.  I had:

firmware 3.36, bios 4.70

Buslogic upgraded me to: (FedX at their expense)

firmware 3.37, bios 4.72

and everything works hunky dory!

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