Re: weird daily check output

From: Ben Smithurst (ben@FreeBSD.org)
Date: 03/27/01 

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:00:17 +0100
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Michael A. Dickerson" <mikey@singingtree.com>

Michael A. Dickerson wrote:

> So far it's looking like it could be hardware .. but what's very suspicious
> is the corruption of the rest of the kernel messages, which is clearly not
> random (lowercase letters->uppercase, etc). That's probably why people
> accused you of faking the message, since it's hard to think of any
> explanation except maybe a particularly juvenile kiddie getting hold of
> /dev/kmem?

Uppercase to lowercase is a one bit change, so it's possible that it's
faulty memory. Most of the other changes seem to be like that:

>>> isa0: <ISA$bus> on isab0

space == 0x20, dollar == 0x24

>>> p#i0: <UHCI USB controlle2> at 31,2 irq 9

c == 0x63, # == 0x23

etc... 

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