Hello,

    I'm a new user to netbsd/sparc! I'm currently using NetBSD 1.1 on a
    sparc1 clone. Having just gotten the system loaded and running,
    including compiling X11R6.1, I'm ready to load my personal files
    back on. The problem is I backuped up my files on dds-2 drive, and
    it doesn't seem to be supported (directly). The only real problem
    is using mt. Here is one error message I'm getting:
sd0(esp0:0:0): timed out (ecb 0xf8659c98 (flags 0x12, dleft 2000), state 3,
   phase 257, msgpriq 0, msgout 0) AGAIN
esp0: SCSI bus reset

    On bootup, the drive is reported as being:
esp0 targ 5 lun 0: <ARCHIVE, Python 28388-XXX, 5.45> SCSI2 1/sequential
removable

    Taking a quick look in /sys/scsi it appears that dds-dc is listed,
    but not dds-2. It looks like I can put a hook in for my drive in
    st.c(?). Has anyone gotten this drive to work?

    Having never been in the position of having kernel source (100% src
    for the whole system actually) I'm going to have quite some fun!
    Thanks to the NetBSD community! I've been bitten by the BSD
    Devil...

    For others having a similiar problem, implementing mt -f /dev/nrst0
    fsf # is not hard. Just do multiple tar -tf /dev/nrst0. I'm sure
    there is a more creative solution, but I'll leave that exercise to
    someone more qualified.

    The reason I switched from SunOS 4.1.4 to NetBSD, was for use with
    the Wright and Stevens book TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume2. I believe
    the Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD OS (?) is in store
    after Volume3! :-)

    One of many things I love about UNIX is that there is always more
    to learn.

    O yeah, almost forgot. Is there a tmpfs or like in BSD? I used to
    use:swap       /tmp          tmp  rw 0 0
    in /etc/fstab with 4.1.4.

    Thanks,
    Joe Rach
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