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  I'm trying to get a 486/33 machine up and running to do some network
testing with. Using either 1.2[.0] or Perry's SSTO disk (both his 1.2C
build and my 1.2D serial console build) I get a ffs panic:

  {here I try to track down which command exactly causes it to die}

# tar --one-file-system -cf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar --unlink -xpf - )
mode = 020640, inum = 2240, fs = /mnt
panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
syncing disks... 11 11 8 2 done

  It is *always* inode 2240. 
  After a reboot, the disklabel is gone. (Perry, did I mention to you
that the disklabel operation on the SSTO needs a -r?)
  
  I think: bad IDE drive. Try BIOS surface analysis. That comes up
clean. (Should I trust that?) 
  So, maybe this is bad ram, and the ram is always getting used for
buffer cache or something.

  {An aside: I seem to now have 5 NE2000 clones which fail their
onboard ram test. I had a sixth as well, which I stole from my wife's
286 terminal, and it failed to test out in this same machine using the
config utilities. I didn't try the other machine that I was setting
up, since it seemed to work and I didn't want to disturb it. I put the
card *BACK* into the 286 and it still works. Maybe this system is just
screwed up in general. I can't believe that I zapped all five of these
cards!!! Some don't probe at all with the config utility} 

  My current plan is to mope for awhile.
  Then I might pick up a new motherboard after reseating this one's ram.

>> NetBSD BOOT: 640/7424 k [2.0Beta]
use hd1a:netbsd to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed
press any key for boot menu
booting fd0a:netbsd
starting in 0
boot: No such file or directory
booting fd0a:netbsd.gz
851968+1613824+578316+[56352+62689]=0x304411
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.2D (SSTO) #10: Wed Apr 23 18:32:02 EDT 1997
    mcr@istari.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca:/j/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/SSTO
cpu0: Intel 486DX (486-class)
real mem  = 8257536
avail mem = 4407296
using 126 buffers containing 516096 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
isa0 at mainbus0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
com0: console
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <QUANTUM LPS270A>
wd0: 258MB, 944 cyl, 14 head, 40 sec, 512 bytes/sec
wd0: using 8-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
ed1 at isa0 port 0x250-0x25f iomem 0xd8000-0xd9fff irq 9
ed1: address 02:60:8c:3f:46:09, type 3c503 (8-bit) bnc
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask 4040 netmask 4240 ttymask 42c0
md0: internal 1537K image area
boot device: fd0
root on md0a
root file system type: ffs
WARNING: no swap space found
Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: 



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