In message <199611041946.UAA00988@mordillo>, Thomas Graichen writes

>just for your information - someone in port-pmax or comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
>asked if a zip drive will work on a pmax - i tried it yesterday - the drive
>itself is accessable from BSD (i tried it with OpenBSD/pmax - but this
>should'nt make any difference) if you change conf-glue.c to use the rzdriver
>for the scsi-id 5 device - and use an kernel config file reflecting this (the
>zip drive can only be set to scsi id 5 or 6) - this way i could read and write
>the zip disk just fine - but i was'nt able to boot off it - i always got
>something like bad bootblk on the console - can it be that the pmax console
>has scsi id 5 also hardwired for (bootable) tapes ?

Possibly.  Could you try the patch I sent in a previous message
and see if it works?

if you could, thanks,

--Jonathan