Darren,

I have the same problem - the major inconvenience is that if a tape is
present in the drive at boot, then the drive is no longer
accessible. The machine has to be booted with an empty drive. Is this
the case with your machine?

Rex
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Rex McMaster                       rmcm@ariel.unimelb.edu.au     
                                  rmcm@paradiso.apana.org.au

Darren Reed writes:
 > 
 > When booting 1.2, my 2940UW is detected ok, but it wrongly detects the status
 > of the drive - there is a tape in it.  Is this a short coming on the drives
 > behalf or does NetBSD just not know how to check for this yet (as of 1.2) ?
 > 
 > Darren
 > 
 > ahc0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0
 > ahc0: interrupting at irq 10
 > ahc0: Reading SEEPROM...checksum error
 > ahc0: No SEEPROM availible
 > ahc0: Using left over BIOS settings
 > ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
 > ahc0: Reseting Channel A
 > ahc0: Downloading Sequencer Program...Done
 > scsibus0 at ahc0
 > st0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <WANGTEK, 6130-HS, 4G16> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
 > st0: drive empty