On 16 Oct 1998, M. Claude Marinier writes:

> I am having trouble dumping to tape. NetBSD and dump should be able to
> deal with slow tape drives by waiting for them. Can anyone help?

I have no solution, but I can confirm the problem, though here is is
rather intermittent.  Interestingly, we also use an Archive Python
jukebox drive and an Adaptec AIC7xxx SCSI controller...

 ahc1 at pci0 dev 13 function 0
 ahc1: interrupting at irq 12
 ahc1: aic7880 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
 scsibus1 at ahc1 channel 0: 8 targets
 cd0 at scsibus1 targ 2 lun 0: <SANYO, CRD-250S, 1.19> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
 ahc1: target 3 synchronous at 5.0MHz, offset = 0x8
 st0 at scsibus1 targ 3 lun 0: <HP, HP35480A, 1109> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
 st0: drive empty
 ahc1: target 5 synchronous at 4.4MHz, offset = 0xf
 st1 at scsibus1 targ 5 lun 0: <ARCHIVE, Python 28849-XXX, 5.AC> SCSI2 1/sequential 
    removable
 st1: density code 0x24, 512-byte blocks, write-enabled
 ch0 at scsibus1 targ 5 lun 1: <ARCHIVE, Python 28849-XXX, 5.AC> SCSI2 8/changer removable
 ch0: 4 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 0 portals

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