Well, it's not just the `de' driver.  Today I drop-kicked my alpha to the
console tune of:

sd0: cannot allocate scsipi xs

This particular Alpha kernel had the `de' driver explicitly excluded from
the kernel config (...on the notion that the de driver was causing memory
leaks).  Unfortunately, I cannot be at the console of this machine for any
reasonable amount of time, so I can't do some DDB investigation.  I'm
falling it back to 1.4, for now.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)