[freebsd-current] re: fsck_4.2bsd: cannot alloc 4294967292

[Tuc at T-B-O-H]

> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:51:53AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> >not the drive... As soon as I mount the drive and try to create
> >filesystems on it I get a kernel panic
> >(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D122380)
> >
> >	I even brought a 7.0 system up elsewhere, formatted it there,
> >and mounted it on the Soekris system, and as soon as I start to use
> >it it panics.
> 
> This sounds very much like data corruption between the flash and the
> filesystem layer.
> 
> How does the flash connect to valhalla?  USB or card slot or ...?
> Can you provide a verbose dmesg of da0 and all its parents?
>
	Did you get that previously? Its a USB, and the dmesg is:

	http://204.107.90.128/dmesg.txt

 
> Try dd'ing off the first 1MB or so using valhalla and also using one
> of your other systems and compare the results.  My suspicion is that
> there is either an off-by-1-sector or similar error or you will find
> valhalla is reading chunks of 0xff bytes where it shouldn't.
> 
	They matched.. Any thoughts where to go?

		Thanks, Tuc