>  > Running fsck shows so many errors its hard to believe a couple of
>  > panic's could do it.
> 
> ...well, it depends on when they happen, what it was doing at the time,
> etc...

It could easily have been processing news - or rather mail - we don't
get a news feed anymore - no time to read it, but all the mailing
lists get injected into local news groups.  

The 2nd panic appeared to happen when the machine was quite idle.
Of course its hard to tell now with so much of the disk hosed.

>  > After the 2nd panic, when I boot single user and hit return for
>  > /bin/sh I get the error:
>  > 
>  > aha0: aha_scsi_cmd, error 22 loading dma map
> 
> That's EINVAL ... argh, where on earth could that be coming from?  What
> version of NetBSD are you running, again?

1.3

>  > Can anyone give me the 30 second summary of the above dma error, and
>  > whether it is likely to mean that the controller is terminally
>  > ill, or just that the filesystem has been seriously corrupted?
> 
> Well, the controller's illness would have nothing to do with that error.
> Quite likely, you've got some corrupted data somewhere that are screwing
> up a calculation...
> 
> But, in order to help hunt this down, I really need to know what
> exact version of NetBSD you're running on that box..

Thanks Jason

--sjg