Well, you may be right.  I have the very same (size) drive as you .  
BTW, mine is a LaCie external.  I have a Q650.  Beats the hell 
outa me.  I just know that when I installed NetBSD, many others also 
indicated trouble with Quantum Fireballs in the near 1G size.  Larger 
ones seemed OK, as did smaller ones.  Maybe it's just a problem with one 
production run, or maybe LaCie did something funny when they branded it.  
Those branding irons get pretty hot, you know :-).

AFAICT, the drive works just fine once you get the system installed.  
I've often wondered what would have happened if I had installed to a 
separate root and user at the end of the disk.  The other thing Brad and 
I have in common is our newness to the system.  Others who have replied 
to this current thread are very familiar with MacBSD (Unix in general)and 
may have used some multi partition setup that didn't let the problem crop 
up, or who had a dedicated drive for NetBSD, or who accidentally partitioned 
the drive in such a way as to put NetBSD in front.

Sooner or later, I'm going to blow away my 1.3 installation and go to a 
1.3.x or 1.4.  Maybe I'll repartition the whole drive in such a way as to 
repeat the problem.  Then I can get back with some of the gurus on the 
list to try to run this problem to ground.

					Kevin

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Falk Stern wrote:

> On Wed, 20 May 1998 bradbu@erols.com wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Havener wrote:
> > > 
> > > Brad,
> > > 
> > > I don't think this is a problem with bad blocks on your hard drive.  I
> > > suspect you have a Quantum Fireball.  
> > 
> > Bingo! I do have a Quantum Fireball...
> > As you might have guessed, I'm new to this stuff. Unfortunately, I
> > signed onto this mailing list only yesterday, so I missed the entire
> > discussion about this particular problem. I found the FAQ and the
> > archive, so I'll search about. 
> > 
> 
> Quantum Fireball may not be the thing. I have a Fireball 1280S(?) and
> NetBSD just installs and runs fine on my IIci...
> 
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