> 
> 2.    Version 1.2 G reliably crashes in the following way, using, again
> all combinations of hardware and software in my posession.  Although the
> following dump is using the drive as RA2 I also moved the disk to RA0,
> re-formatted, reloaded 1.2G, and got the same results.
> 
[...]
> 
> NetBSD 1.2_ALPHA (GENERIC) #2: Sun Jun 23 11:26:00 MET DST 1996
>     ragge@urgoriyf:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC
> 
This is not 1.2G, it's 1.2 alpha which is a real ancient version of
NetBSD known not to work on many MicroVAXen.
Post-1.2 versions should not have this problem.

-- Ragge