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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 21:57:47 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Device xx:name slot allocation failed (E=17)
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>I'm seeing this error in all my FreeBSD-current boxes now, and one of them (a 
>32Mb P5-75 with an Adaptec 78xx controller), crashes. I suspect a buffer is 
>being overwritten somewhere. The devices that the machines are compalining 
>about are the disks, raw & block. It happens with both wd & sd devices.

This was a bug in devfs.  It was supposed to have been fixed about a month
ago.

Bruce