Hello.

> It's me and my tape queries again ;-). We've now decided upon
> a factory-refurbished Connor 4586NP DAT autoloader. Is this
> good/bad/indifferent and will it work with NetBSD 1.1 (it's
> SCSI-2 I think)? (I'll be using 'dump' to do the backups.)

Recently I installed NetBSD-1.2/sparc and updated to 1.2C for now.
I also wanted to use Archive :-) 4586NP DDS autoloader.
At boot time, It is recognized as follows;

st0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <ARCHIVE, 4586XX 28887-XXX, 4.BG> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
st0: rogue, density code 0x24, 512-byte blocks, write-enabled
ch0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 1: <ARCHIVE, 4586XX 28887-XXX, 4.BG> SCSI2 8/changer removable
ch0: 4 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker

You can load/unload the tapes using chio command.
But, I got read/write errors. I don't know why. :-(
The error messages are;

Feb 25 05:21:52 ipc /netbsd: st0(esp0:5:0): no data found, requested size: 65536 (decimal), data = 00 00 33 07 6a 5c 00 02 98 10
Feb 25 05:23:46 ipc /netbsd: esp0: RESELECT: 7 bytes in FIFO!
Feb 25 05:23:46 ipc /netbsd: esp:3: async
Feb 25 05:23:46 ipc /netbsd: st0(esp0:5:0): unit attention, data = 00 00 33 07 6a 5c 00 02 98 10
Feb 25 05:34:17 ipc /netbsd: st0(esp0:5:0): no data found, requested size: 1 (decimal), data = 00 00 01 41 00 00 00 00 00 00
Feb 25 05:37:46 ipc /netbsd: esp0: RESELECT: 7 bytes in FIFO!
Feb 25 05:37:46 ipc /netbsd: esp:3: async
Feb 25 05:37:46 ipc /netbsd: st0(esp0:5:0): unit attention, data = 00 00 01 41 00 00 00 00 00 00

I want to know how to fix this problem.

Best regards,
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futoshi