Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
> I just purchased a zip drive to use on my Mac IIci with NetBSD and
> am having some problems.  I followed the How-To (using silver lining
> for partitioning) and managed to get illegal instruction traps over
> and over again.

Commonly seen with an "incompatible" SCSI driver...use the other one.
 
> One question about the How-To, it has 6144 blocks for eschatology
> which I thought we didn't need?  Also, I am planning on using the
> disk for backups and archiving some old stuff so am I correct in
> assuming I also don't need the swap partition either? (I guess thats
> actually 2 questions).  Anyway, I have tried both the #'s from the
> How-To and also

BTW, have you tried the other zip HOWTO?  I haven't combined them yet, but
I think the newer might be a bit more descriptive.  I belive you can find
it at:

ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/NetBSD/docs/notes/

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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