> > I dont have a HD on my
> > cumana scsi card. I have an optical PD instead. This makes the
> > boot sequence crash. Programming like that sucks.
> With only a reasonable amount of fiddling I managed to get RiscBSD working
> on Cumana SCSI II and PD drive (1.1+X16, not 1.2beta) - except unixfs which
> resolutely refuses to write to anywhere without crashing the machine...
> But the main thing about it is that it is SLOW.  Very.  Even in 8Mb you are
> better off with no swap than swap on the PD, which is fair enough given the
> PD write-speed...

Really? What kind of fiddling? Do you have another SCSI
devices connected? My problems started when I removed my
240MB SCSI HD.

Anyway, I have the main NetBSD system on my IDE, and use the
PD for development on large projects. Or I would, if I could.

Kim0