I've had similar results with my Exabyte-8200 8mm drive on the SBC SCSI
driver.  But it works rather well on the ncr SCSI driver, so you might
want to try that.  

Unless, of course, you've already tried it and determined that you need
the SBC driver to keep your hard disks from getting blown away!  :)

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Mike Ekholm wrote:

> I was wondering is there is any supported tape drives. I tried using my 
> 60MB Archive tape  drive. using 'dd' I got this error:
> 
> st0(sbc0:3:0):illegal request, data=00 01 01 04 a5 00
> 
> could someone translate this?
> I am using NetBSD 1.2, adbtest#160, LCII
> --
>             ekholm@skypoint.com | http://www.skypoint.com/~ekholm
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       "All I ask for is a T1 to my house, is that too much to ask for?"
> 
> 

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