On Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:33:04 -0400 
 David Gilbert <dgilbert@pci.on.ca> wrote:

 > 	Despite trying hard on the weekend, I don't understand the
 > SCSI subsystem yet.  I have an old Sun4/260 that has a cartridge
 > drive that doesn't seem to like NetBSD.  I am told that this drive is
 > known to act up (and constitutes somewhat of a hack itself).

The drive of which you speak (I have 6 of them) is a horribly broken 
device, yes.

 > 	First, I'd like to know what are the chances that this drive
 > can be made to work.  Secondly, if I got a more modern SCSI QIC tape
 > drive, and popped it in, would it be likely to work?

There's a good chance it would work, yes.  I haven't tried it ...

I'm pretty certain the drive would be made to work, and it's probably 
just a matter of making the `si' driver itself more robust.

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