I believe this is the same issue that was recently addressed in FreeBSD.
The FreeBSD driver is derived from the NetBSD one, so I would expect
this to be an easy change to lift.  Diffs are available from 
www.FreeBSD.org or the FreeBSD.org anoncvs servers:

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_ch.c
revision 1.2
date: 1998/10/02 05:25:49;  author: ken;  state: Exp;  lines: +188 -68
Modify the changer driver so it can handle (hopefully!) changers that need
block descriptors enabled on mode sense commands.

Basically, we try sending a mode sense with block descriptors disabled (the
previous default), and if it fails, we try sending the mode sense with
block descriptors enabled.  If that works, we note that in a runtime quirk
entry, so we don't bother disabling block descriptors again for the device.

This problem was first reported by Chris Jones <cjones@honors.montana.edu>
on one of the NetBSD lists, but I'd imagine that some FreeBSD users would
have run into it eventually as well, since our changer driver is derived
form the NetBSD changer driver.

Also, change some of the probe logic so that we do the right thing in the
case of a failure to attach.

Fix a memory leak in chgetparams().

Add a couple of inline helper functions to scsi_all.h to correctly return
the start of a mode page.

NetBSD PR:      kern/6214
Reviewed by:    gibbs

--
Justin