Nathan Gelbard writes:
> I was trying to install NetBSD 1.3 on my (labeled Maxtor, probed as
> Miniscribe) drive:
> 
> Miniscribe Corp 8051a, 40mb w/ 32kcache CHS=981,5,17

Is this a SCSI or a non-SCSI drive? You don't specify.

BTW, I will point out that 200M SCSI drives typically go for under $20 
on www.onsale.com these days. I know that is no excuse for NetBSD not
to run with your drive -- I'm just trying to be helpful in general...

.pm

> 
> NetBSD 1.3 (the boot floppy) probes the controller fine, but
> refuses to see the disk. Linux 2.0.34, found it right away and
> is still working great (ack).
> 
> Any ideas why this would be?
> 
> Also, this drive has an odd spin-up policy. It spins to something
> like 4x its normal speed, then slows to 1x (which sounds very slow,
> even tho it still works great) to do its diskly business. If you bump
> the drive, or turn it upsidedown, it spins up fast, and you get read
> errors. Then it quites down and works fine again.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
>         nate
>