Hmm... My Mac SE/30 under MacOS couldn't use the Jaz drive w/out me 
loading the Iomega drivers. Why doesn't NetBSD require specialized 
drivers? Or could this be related to the instability problems?

-Capt Avram Dorfman
Chief, Network Operations
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Space Case wrote:

> On Jan 4, 12:31pm, "Colin Wood" wrote:
> >> Is it any different than using a regular hard disk? 
> >
> >Technically, no.  In reality, yes.  Many people seem to have found
> >increased stability problems with removable media (i.e. they are more
> >susceptible to filesystem corruption).
> 
> That has been my experience.  I get so much corruption under even MacOS
> that I have turned on verify after write (which slows things down) and
> run both Norton *and* MacTools after doing major changes.  For me, it's
> unusable under NetBSD.
> 
> ~Steve
> 
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> It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.
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>