John Ruschmeyer wrote:
> 
> I'm in the process of putting together a NetBSD 1.4.1 box to act as a
> PPP/NAT router and Samba/Netatalk server for my home. (The usual.)
> 
> To keep expenses down, I'm trying to do it from things laying around the
> house. I'm having some problems, though with the SCSI subsystem.
> 
> Basic box configuration:
> 
>         Gateway 2000 P5-60 (Intel "Batman's Revenge" mobo)
>         32Mb RAM
>         420MB IDE root/usr drive
>         Torisan 6x ATAPI CD-ROM (master on secondary IDE)
>         Old WD SVGA card.
> 
> This part all seems to work fine. I want to install a SCSI card, though,
> so that I can access the NetBSD installion sets on a Zip drive.
> 
> My first attempt was from performed using a AHA-1542A (really old card). The
> Zip probed and mounted correctly, but the installer would have problems with
> invalid file headers while unpacking the sets. In short, I appeared to have
> some kind of silent data corruption.

Same sort of problem bit me with a similar card+jazz drive.
Did you check/adjust the SCSI transfer rate?  (control+A at boot up I think).
Make sure it's below 7 Mb/s (I have it set to 5 Mb/s).

	Thanks.

	- Scott