The actual version from dmesg is:

NetBSD 1.2 (GENERIC) #7: Sun Sep 15 16:15:20 PDT 1996
    thorpej@basalt:/u3/NetBSD-1.2/src/sys/arch/hp300/compile/GENERIC


On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 18:12:55 +0100 (BST) 
>  Tony Povoas <tony@ing.iac.es> wrote:
> 
>  > I'm now getting errors that the disk is read only which is news to me! Any
>  > other ideas? ( I've tried disklabel -W)
> 
> ...which revision are you running?  -current?
> 
> For the record, I'm NOT able to reproduce these problems.  The proper
> way to initialize a disklabel for the first time is to create a label
> (you can do this by running disklabel sd1 > foo, editing foo, then
> running disklabel -W sd1; disklabel -r -R sd1 foo).
> 
>  > dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c count=3
>  > Dec  9 13:55:35 marat /netbsd: sd1: WARNING: no disk label, using old
>  > default partitioning
>  > dd: /dev/rsd1c: Read-only file system
>  > 3+0 records in
>  > 2+0 records out
>  > 1024 bytes transferred in 1 secs (1024 bytes/sec)
>  > 
>  > After that disklabel -r reports no label on the disk :-(
> 
> ...right... it's not letting you write over the label area for some
> reason.  However, I had fixed this, I thought...
> 
> Please make sure you have arch/hp300/dev/sd.c revision:
> 
> 	$NetBSD: sd.c,v 1.29 1997/01/30 09:14:20 thorpej Exp $
> 
> Folks ... when reporting problems, it is _vitally_ important that you
> include all relevant information, including revisions of source
> files for relevant drivers, uname output, etc.  It's almost impossible
> to determine what's actually going on otherwise.
> 
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