I just purchased a zip drive to use on my Mac IIci with NetBSD and
am having some problems.  I followed the How-To (using silver lining
for partitioning) and managed to get illegal instruction traps over
and over again.

One question about the How-To, it has 6144 blocks for eschatology
which I thought we didn't need?  Also, I am planning on using the
disk for backups and archiving some old stuff so am I correct in
assuming I also don't need the swap partition either? (I guess thats
actually 2 questions).  Anyway, I have tried both the #'s from the
How-To and also

194036 blocks for A/UX Root&Usr Slice0
with the rest for HFS.

Mkfs (1.45) seems to run ok, I have tried the How-To numbers
(using the appropriate number for file system size) and also
tried what ever defaults came up.

When I boot NetBSD (single user)

NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA (GENERIC) #48: Fri Nov  7 16:25:23 PST 1997
    allen@c610:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERIC
Apple Macintosh IIci  (68030)
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ncrscsi0 at obio0
scsibus0 at ncrscsi0: 8 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, LP80S  980809404, 3.3> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 80MB, 921 cyl, 4 head, 44 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 164139 sectors
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL1080S, 1Q09> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 1042MB, 3835 cyl, 4 head, 139 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2134305 sectors
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 5 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-8004A, 2.0a> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <IOMEGA, ZIP 100, F.09> SCSI2 0/direct removable
sd2: drive offline
^^^ This is with the zip ejected.  With the zip in, I get 96MB, 96cyl, 64heads,32sectors
   512 bytes/sec x 196608 sectors.


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Then 
disklabel sd2

prints out some of the right stuff, but gives a kernel panic (illegal instruction
trap) at about the point where the prompt should come back.

fsck -f /dev/sd2a

gives a kernel panic. after making it to the point of "marking file system clean"

newfs /dev/sd2a

gives a kernel panic. towards the end (after listing where the super block
backups are).

I will try and upgrade to 1.3beta to see if it fixes, but I had really hoped
to get the zip working so I could download 1.3beta at school and bring it home
on the zip instead of using my 14.4 modem to get it.

Anyone else have problems (or success?)?

Dan