The following reply was made to PR port-i386/32474; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-i386-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/32474: SCSI tape /dev/st fails on NetBSD 2.1 onwards
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:37:03 +0100

 On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:15:00PM +0000, glenn@squirrelsolutions.co.uk wrote:
 > >Number:         32474
 > >Category:       port-i386
 > >Synopsis:       SCSI tape /dev/st fails on NetBSD 2.1 onwards
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       high
 > >Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 07 12:15:00 +0000 2006
 > >Originator:     Glenn Richards
 > >Release:        2.1 onwards
 > >Organization:
 > Squirrel Solutions
 > >Environment:
 > NetBSD server 3.0_RC6 NetBSD 3.0_RC6 (SERVER) #2: Tue Dec 13 18:50:22 GMT 2005  glenn@server:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/SERVER i386
 > >Description:
 > During hardware probe, or when rescanning SCSI bus, attempting to detect a SCSI tape drive (Freecom/HP DAT-72 DDS-5) fails with "SCSI opcode 0x12 timed out" on NetBSD 2.1 or later.
 > 
 > Have tested this with 2.1, 3.0 RC5, RC6 and 3.0 using Tekram DC-395UW SCSI card. Downgrading to 2.0.2 solves problem.
 
 Can you post the full dmesg including the kernel error messages ?
 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Connect a tape drive to SCSI bus - not sure if problem is with trm or st driver though. Have not been able to test with alternative SCSI card.
 
 Probably trm. Nothing relevant changed in src/sys/dev/scsipi/ between 2.0.2
 and 2.1
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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