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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com, sheldonh@uunet.co.za
Subject: Re: MFS still hosed
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com
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>I think I know why a lot of people _aren't_ seeing this panic: it
>doesn't show up if you #undef DEVT_FASCIST in kern/kern_conf.c .

#undef DEVT_FASICIST weakens tthe error detection.

>I found this by accident because I can't get a crash dump using the wd
>driver. I get 
>
>dumping to dev (0, 131089), offset 524288
>dump device bad

131089 is the ordinary minor number 0x20011 (slice 2, unit 2, partition
1) (for wd2s1b).  The dev_t changes obfuscated it by printing it in %d
format instead of as part of the dev number in [0x]%x format.  They
should have used %#x format.

Bruce


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