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>OK..  I could make the panic go away by zeroing the ata HD (using NetBSD &
>dd ;-).  So whatever it was exactly that caused the panic, it definitely
>was dependent on the data already resident on the HD.

In all likelyhood this is one of the (newer) geom classes or ata raid
probes which doesn't bother to do the right gymnastics to get alignment
of on-disk data right.

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