> 
> SECOND PROBLEM,
> I have a adapte 2940UW board (on pci bus).
> When a exabyte 4200 (4mm no compression) is hooked up everything works fine.
> When a exabyte 8200 (8mm no compression) is hooked up everything works (ie
> I can write to the tape with tar, and can read everything back in via tar)
> BUT I'm getting lots of "Target Busy" messages on the console.

Take a look at http://www.exabyte.com They have firmware upgrades, faq's
and stuff there that probably will help. There is a busy dip switch on the
drive that might help also (documented at the aforementioned site).
Also there is a linux howto for the drive, that probably will apply equally
to netbsd.

> SO, its realy not a netbsd problem!  BUT, can anyone explain why this is
> happening (or better yet) what it means?  As far as I follow the netbsd code
> it looks like the tape drive is busy, and we can't even give the scsi board
> another queued command since its busy too!
> 


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