I asked Mark Weaver to make this change to his copy of st.c, and he
reported that it now worked for him.  I suggest you try replacing the
gallery entry for the Viper 525 with:

    {"ARCHIVE ", "VIPER 2525 25462", "????",
        0,
        {
            {0, ST_Q_SNS_HLP, 0},                       /* minor 0-3 */
            {0, ST_Q_SNS_HLP, QIC_525},                 /* minor 4-7 */
            {0, 0, QIC_150},                            /* minor 8-11 */
            {0, 0, QIC_120}                             /* minor 12-15 */
        }
    },

If this doesn't work, send me your config file and the output of
dmesg(8).


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