I had similar problems some time back with a Jaz drive which were also 
solved by switching to an sbc kernel.
bak

"I hate broccoli, and yet, in a certain sense...I am broccoli"
						-The Tick

On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 era@iki.fi wrote:

> For the record, another data point for problems with Zip drives. 
> I'm telling the whole story below; the short executive summary is that
> the Zip drive would silently corrupt my data with the NCR driver and
> the SBC driver seems to have fixed that. 
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