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From: Thomas Sparrevohn <staff@kyklopen.ping.dk>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au
Subject: Re: Device xx:name slot allocation failed (E=17)
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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >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
> 

Well not quite, the disk devices does still (src-cur 1649) give that
message.

Regards 

  Thomas