I've been using it fine on a mobilepro 770 -- I think there were 
sometimes problems when running off of batteries. . .. 

>   Is anyone using an IBM Microdrive?  When I try it from the PC Card
> adaptor in my i386 1.4 laptop, I get the following error on mount:
> wd1a: aborted command reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd1 bn 79; cn 0 to 1 sn
> 16), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> 
> but other then that it works fine.  When I try to use it as root for
> hpcmips (still in the PC card adaptor), I get:
> NetBSD 1.4S (CLIO) #1: Fri Feb 11 07:25:23 PST 2000

. . . .
> 
> 
>   Anyone know what could be going on here?
> 
>   I don't currently have a -current machine with a pcmcia slot, but I will
> try making a boot floppy tomorrow (todays sup seems to panic).