Hi,
I am attempting to install NetBSD 1.5.1 on a SparcStation 1. This box has
a SCSI Sun-branded Tape drive, that identifies in dmesg to SunOS 4.1.4 as
a QIC-150. The floppy disk drive is broken.

In placing tapefile1 and tapefile2 onto a tape, the kernel issues
errors about the write size not being modulo 512 bytes - on the
very last write.

Ignoring these errors and attempting to boot from the tape causes the
following error after the NetBSD banner:

data fault: pc=0xf00d1578 addr=0xf82271d8 ser=80<INVAL>
panic: kernel fault
halted

Is there some way to align the tape files to 512 bytes safely?
I have tried simply concatenating the two files together and padding it at
the end, as well as padding tapefile1, then appending tapefile2 and padding that.
I have also tried using the NetBSD 1.5 tapefiles, with the same result..


Thank you