Re: Sun Fire v215 panic at boot

> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:55:57 +0100
> From: Paul de Weerd <[email protected]>
> 
> I recently got a v215 from a friend and have installed OpenBSD on it.
> Occassionally, it will panic during boot.  This happened during
> install and I see it now during regular reboots.  I can pretty much
> reproduce this at will with a couple of reboots.
> 
> Could this be faulty hardware ?  To reset the ALOM password, I
> installed Solaris 10 (took an eternity) and that never showed any
> problems, but I guess that doesn't prove much.
> 
> First the panic and then full dmesg (from a succesful boot) are
> included below.

I doubt this is faulty hardware.  I've seen similar reports for a
v445, which has the same crappy Acer Labs pciide(4) controller.  I
fear that the wdc.c changes made in April 2011 introduced this
behaviour.