Here's the output of a panic:

creating runtime link editor directory cache.
checking for core dump...
ock=0 36:52, fs=/idt:ev v=1 0xa904, bl
panicc: blksfreesd: nfrst:eIeing f ree frag
syncing disks...10 10 9 2 2 2 ...a bunch of twos...2 2 2 giving up


Note that the garbled output in these messages is not a typing error, nor do
I normally have any garbled output on the screen; it's normally just fine.

A guess:  bad sectors on the disk?

- Tom


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Tom Guptill                     Department of Physics and Astronomy
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