To further check out my hardware, I tried dd'ing one of my drives to
/dev/null.  The result was a panic, with no sign of a hardware error...

I tried

	dd if=/dev/sd1e of=/dev/null bs=10240

It churned for a while, then said "panic: getblk: block size invariant 
failed".  (This is under NetBSD 1.5.2.)

Is this something to worry about?  Or is this "normal" when reading a 
block special device without checking if the file system size is, in 
fact, a multiple of the blocksize I specified?  (Note that I did *not* 
say /dev/rsd1e.)

I'd try to get a dump, but with drive 0 showing serious signs of ill 
health I don't think I could write the dump anywhere.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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