> >Considering the age of the box, I would consider hw failure at this point 
> >...
> 
> Did you ever have NetBSD running on it? I know I've never had great 
> experience using motherboard fast memory with an accelerator which has 
> memory on it, too - but usually it was a problem after a few hours.

 Yes, I have 1.6.2 running on the box, from a different drive
 (external Sun 2GB). I had NetBSD on the box since 1.2 or 1.3, and also
 OpenBSD up to 3.2 (or whatever the last Amiga release was).