I hate following up my own post, but I manages to get some significant
information.
The console (previously inaccessible after the crash) was "on screen"
for the last event and I get the the following:
FAILURE - malloc ATA request failed
cannot allocate ATAPI/CAM request
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): out of m
I suspect that I have a system losing interrupts from the disk. I get
fairly random lock-ups where the system totally freezes and the disk
access LED is on continuously until I power cycle the system.
It's an IBM T30 with an IBM 40 GB disk. The only thing I have noticed
is that the lock-ups only s
