Is the drive borken or is it the driver?
I've tried two different drives, none of them works.
HP drives, NetBSD 1.6 on i386.
(Used cleaning tape and brand new data tape... DDS2)

Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: st0(siop0:0:2:0): command timeout
Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: siop0: scsi bus reset
Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: st0(siop0:0:2:0): command with tag id 0
reset
Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: st0: async, 8-bit transfers
Apr 13 17:46:32 bunke /netbsd: st0: sync (100.0ns offset 8), 8-bit
(10.000MB/s) transfers
Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd: st0(siop0:0:2:0):  DEFERRED ERROR, key =3D
0x3
Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd: st0(siop0:0:2:0):  Check Condition on CDB:
0x10 00 00 00 02 00
Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd:     SENSE KEY:  Media Error
Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd:      ASC/ASCQ:  Positioning Error
Apr 13 17:47:27 bunke /netbsd:


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