For the record, I ran an IBM z50 with 1Gb MicroDrive with zero problems. It
sounds like the device files weren't built in the installation or something.

Battery life with a wireless card (wi) and MicroDrive was probably 4-5
hours. Beats the pants off the MobilePro 800, but the MP800 has mouse
support and a vastly better screen.

DP

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Sollish" <gsollish@mail.gisco.net>
To: "Steven Sartorius" <ssartor@bellatlantic.net>
Cc: "David Cowan" <David.Cowan@vissci.com>; <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: RE: z50/Microdrive (was E100/Microdrive)


> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Steven Sartorius wrote:
>
> > I have a z50 with an original 340MB Microdrive.  I installed much the
way you
> > described (small dos partition with bootloader and install kernel) but I
> > grabbed the installation sets via ftp.  This was back in the 1.5beta
days but
> > I've since updated my kernel and userland to 1.5Q (cross-compiled on a
i386
> > box).  Are you installing the 1.5 release?  Did your devices get made by
> > sysinst?
> >
> > I'm very happy with my z50 -- the most portable system I've ever owned
and you
> > can pack a surprising amount of stuff in 340MB (perl,python...).  Hope
you get
> > it working!
>
> The z50 I tried went back to the store I got it from -- from what you're
> saying it sounds like the problems I was having with squirrely WinCE boots
> and no /dev/console in NetBSD were hardware related, so returning it was a
> good thing.  Perhaps I should shop for another -- everything about it
> (other than not fitting in my pocket) seemed to meet my requirements.
>
> For the record, I was installing 1.5-release, and I did try both NFS and
> FTP installs -- no difference.  I don't recall any errors when sysinst
> built the devices (I've done many i386 installs -- I would've noticed, I
> think).
>
> Thanks for your help and advice.
>
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