On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:31:17PM -0800, john heasley wrote:
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> Anyway, btest succeeds, but bfill fails in trying to append a block after
> the tape EOM.  I admit to not understanding why it expects to be able to
> write after the end of the tape.

mt(1):

     eew        Enable or disabled early warning EOM behaviour.  Count is set
                to nonzero to enable, zero to disable.

Try to set it before you backup something:

mt -f /dev/nrst0 eew 1

Btw, this is IMHO not pkgsrc related. It's a netbsd problem.
Feel free to redirect it to current-users.

Bernd