>  Loading the miniroot onto swap and booting to perform the upgrade
> to 1.3 caused problems with identifying the tape drive.  I can be more
> specific if this is a previously unreported problem.  I need (work related)
> to access the tape so I can't go to 1.3 if it doesn't support the tape
> drive.

Please send the details to me.

I've been working on the SCSI driver to fix possibly related problems
that first became apparent on a 4/300. The exact error messages
will tell if those fixes will apply to your problems as well.

-pk