The new aic7xxx driver has just started to produce an irritating
message: Can't malloc SCB.

Here's the output of "dmesg":

NetBSD 1.1B (ED209) #0: Sat May 18 00:55:23 MET DST 1996
    thomas@ed209:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ED209
CPU: Pentium (GenuineIntel 586-class CPU)
real mem  = 33161216
avail mem = 29442048
using 430 buffers containing 1761280 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
isa0 at mainbus0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37f irq 7
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 1554MB, 3158 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec < HP 1600 A>
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
wdc1 at isa0 port 0x170-0x177 irq 15
atapibus0 at wdc1
atapibus0 drive0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5402TA, 6100601576, 3605> cdrom, removable.
acd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: medium type unknown
sb0 at isa0 port 0x220-0x237 irq 5 drq 1: dsp v4.13
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
vt0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: unknown s3, 80 col, color, 8 scr, mf2-kbd, [R3.32]
pms0 at vt0 irq 12
spkr0 at vt0 port 0x61
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
joy0 at isa0 port 0x201: joystick connected
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
vendor 0x8086 product 0x122d (class bridge, subclass host, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
vendor 0x8086 product 0x122e (class bridge, subclass ISA, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not configured
vendor 0x5333 product 0x88f0 (class display, subclass VGA, revision 0x00) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured
ahc0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0
ahc0: BurstLen = 4DWDs, Latency Timer = 64PCLKS
ahc0: interrupting at irq 9
ahc0: Reading SEEPROM...done.
ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
ahc0: Reseting Channel A
ahc0: Downloading Sequencer Program...Done
scsibus0 at ahc0
scsibus0: waiting for scsi devices to settle
ahc0: target 1 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <IBM, DPES-31080, S31Q> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 1034MB, 4903 cyl, 4 head, 108 sec, 512 bytes/sec
ahc0: target 2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0x8
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <QUANTUM, LPS540S, 5900> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd2: 516MB, 2740 cyl, 4 head, 96 sec, 512 bytes/sec
ahc0:A:4: refuses syncronous negotiation.  Using asyncronous transfers
st0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <ARCHIVE, VIPER 150  21247, -005> SCSI1 1/sequential removable
st0: rogue, drive empty
ahc0:A:5: refuses syncronous negotiation.  Using asyncronous transfers
sd3 at scsibus0 targ 5 lun 0: <IOMEGA, ZIP 100, C.19> SCSI2 0/direct removable
sd3: drive offline
biomask c260 netmask c260 ttymask d2fa

 Aperture driver for XFree86 version 1.4
com0: 3 silo overflows, 0 ibuf overflows
lpt0: offline
ahc0: Can't malloc SCB
sd2: not queued, error 5
swap_pager_clean: clean of page 16b8000 failed
ahc0: Can't malloc SCB
sd2: not queued, error 5
swap_pager_clean: clean of page 1768000 failed
ahc0: Can't malloc SCB
sd2: not queued, error 5
swap_pager_clean: clean of page 1777000 failed
ahc0: Can't malloc SCB
sd2: not queued, error 5
swap_pager_clean: clean of page 17dc000 failed
ahc0: Can't malloc SCB
sd2: not queued, error 5
swap_pager_clean: clean of page 17df000 failed
ahc0: Can't malloc SCB
sd2: not queued, error 5
swap_pager_clean: clean of page 17ea000 failed
ahc0: Can't malloc SCB
sd2: not queued, error 5
swap_pager_clean: clean of page 17eb000 failed
ahc0: Can't malloc SCB
sd2: not queued, error 5
swap_pager_clean: clean of page 16bc000 failed
lpt0: offline
lpt0: offline


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