Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 18:00:47 -0600
   From: "Phil Knaack" <flipk@ncremp.ag.iastate.edu>
	   Since I know several people who use the ZIP successfully, and one of
   them had difficulties with cabling that caused the same problems you describe
   (worked under DOS, no under netbsd) then I suspect this (or similar) is your
   problem.

That makes no sense.  I have not described such problems.  I am using
the ZIP drive just fine with netbsd.  I don't have DOS on this
machine, so I haven't tried it with DOS.  What I have not been able to
do is ever use a ZIP disk without putting a netbsd disklabel on it.