jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU writes:

> I'm still interested in feedback on Jaz, Zip, or other removable or
> magneto-optical media.  I think it's pretty solid, but I have no idea
> about MO media.

I tried IOMEGA Bernoulli 150MB drive with my maxine, and got a bad
news.  The kernel failed to boot off with the drive connected.  The
symptom is the same as I tried the IOMEGA long time ago, and the kernel
just halts during SCSI probing w/o any info.  The boot message is
as follows.  Bernoulli drive's SCSI# is 3. 

--
NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA (INSTALL) #1: Sat Nov  8 23:58:56 PST 1997
    jonathan@Reno.DSG.Stanford.EDU:/reno/compile/INSTALL
real mem = 41943040
avail mem = 35319808
using 1024 buffers containing 4194304 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
...
sfb0 at tc0 slot 1 offset 0x0 (1280x1024x8) (console)
device PMAF-FA  at tc0 slot 0 offset 0x0 not configured
Beginning old-style SCSI device autoconfiguration
rz2 at asc0 drive 2 slave 0 DEC RZ25     (C) DEC rev 0900

rz2: 406MB, 1476 cyl, 9 head, 62 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 832527 sectors
halted.
--

It's known that some of (all?) IOMEGA removal drives reports obscure
messages for SCSI inquries.  I saw such warning boot messages for
Bernoulli and Jaz with NetBSD/i386.  It's safe to ignore with NetBSD/i386,
but it might be the reason why NetBSD/pmax kernel gets stucked.

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology