On Sun, 12 May 1996, M.R. Zucca wrote:

> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 19:05:09 -0400
> From: "M.R. Zucca" <mrz5149@cs.rit.edu>
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: More fun with EZ and Internal Video
>
> I couldn't get my EZ Drive to settle down enough to get a kernel compiled.
> It seems that whenever the kernel prints the messages about "Target requested
> too much data" it munges the inodes to the point where fsck can't recover
> them. I think what the SCSI driver should do when it gets something like this
> is resync the bus and run a re-try on at least the block that's getting
> toasted. It might also be a hardware problem with me but haven't other people
> complained about this drive wigging out?

I suspect it would be prudent to wait on the firmware upgrade (soon, maybe
already out?).  The biggest EZ drive prob. comes from the firmware bug.
Maybe it will start working normally after the upgrade.  Then again, maybe
Apple Computer will make money next quarter.

Later,

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