"The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood]" <davagatw@mars.utm.edu> writes:
> > I am booting off of a EZ drive (but I am pretty sure this would not be a
> > problem, since I can install packages, etc. onto it).
> I have an EZ135 myself.  It won't work under NetBSD very well.  If you're
> loading the kernel off it, that's probably the reason for the crash,
> though I'm not positive, as I don't think I ever tried booting off of it.
> Basically, do much writing to an EZ135 and the whole SCSI bus hangs until
> you turn the drive off and back on, causing data loss and the kernel goes
> unstable.

I have an EZ135 which I use on a 486.  I don't use it as a boot drive, but
I have made fairly extensive use of it (including using it to hold sources
while compiling); it appears to work fine for me.  I did have some early
teething trouble, including a symptom like what you describe, but it hasn't
happened in a long time;  it *might* have been associated with a cartridge
which had lots of bad blocks (I remember suspecting that the drive's error
recovery was faulty), or it might have been Adaptec driver glitches which
since have been fixed.  At any rate, it now appears to be reasonably solid.
(Just watch, it's going to crap out during the backups I plan to do later
tonight... ;-)