In article <16162.45463.402126.459069@canoe.velocet.net>,
	David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> writes:
> a) because it's half duples ...

Should that read half duplex? hme interfaces support 100MBit full duplex.
The autoconfiguration doesn't work correctly in NetBSD 1.6.1 - not sure
about current. But if you use "ifconfig" to activate full duplex mode
manually the problem should go away.

> I havn't tried st1 yet (doing so now), but writing to st0 to the end
> of the tape produces endless copies of the following message:
> 
> st0(isp0:0:0:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x0a 00 00 08 00 00
>     SENSE KEY:  Volume Overflow
>                 EOM Detected
>    INFO FIELD:  2048
>  COMMAND INFO:  55 (0x37)
>      ASC/ASCQ:  End-Of-Partition/Medium Detected
> 
> ... it would seem that the driver should just return EOM to the tar
> process... but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Try to use "mt eew 1" before starting the backup.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/