Greg Earle wrote:
> 
> While my call traceback varies, I'm suffering from a rash of ffs_valloc()
> panic's on a Pentium 133 system running 1.2.  What's interesting is that
> it also tends to be paired (usually just after) my "/var/cron/log" file
> getting turned into scrambled eggs.  I took my disk out of a running
> Pentium 120 system that had an Adaptec AHA2940 in it and put it into this
> system that has an Adaptec 3940 in it (only using the first channel).

I too have an Adaptec (1542B => isa bus & old with its 1Gb limit)

> If anyone has any ideas - or knows why "/var/cron/log" is continually getting
> wiped out (i.e., "fsck" on "/var" keeps finding that "/var/cron/log" is
> mangled every few days, and torches it) - I'd appreciate hearing from you.
> Are there any changes in 1.2.1 that might address this?

Is the cron job at the time leading to much disk activity? That's when
it panics for me...

Patrick