In article <199509261729.NAA12743@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> cassidy@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Jeffrey Wheat) writes:
>I have been trying to get a tape drive to work in my netbsd-current
>box for a while now with no luck. I have tried a couple different
>drives, controllers, and the the error is *always* the same... When 
>the mt command or tar is used to try and access the drive, I get errors
>about the drive timing out. The tape drives I have tried are the HP 35480
>and the TANDBERG TDC 4200. The controllers both adaptec 1522A's.
>
>System is a Pentium 100, with the Intel chipset, and onboard ide controllers.
>
>My config file and a clip from the messages is included. I appreciate any
>help I can get regarding this. I really need to do a full back up soon.
>Also, if there are any suggested tape drives/controllers to use, then please
>send me your suggestions. I need atleast 2 Gig tape drives...
>

Try turning off synchronous scsi in aic.c off.

christos