On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Benjamin Coburn wrote:

>     I want to install MacBSD on an external SyQuest 135 drive, but have
> been a little woried about all these crashes I'm hearing about. If I only
> have MacBSD running on my external SyQuest is my internal disk safe in
> the event that I experience such a crash?  Clerification of this point
> would greatly be appreciated.   -btc

Syquest crashes only cause data damage, not hard errors, and only on the
Syquest cartridge itself.  The sbc kernel evidently takes care of that,
I've not tried personally, though.  The sbc and current ncrscsi both seem
to cause

Later,

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