I am having trouble dumping to tape. NetBSD and dump should be able to
deal with slow tape drives by waiting for them. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

Here is part of the output from an 'at' job.

	dump 0ubdsf 126 54000 6000 /dev/nrst0 /
	  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Oct 16 16:00:07 1998
	  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
	  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0a (/) to /dev/nrst0
	  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
	  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
	  DUMP: estimated 63358 tape blocks on 0.02 tape(s).
->	  DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/nrst0".
	  DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured
	  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

When this happens, there are messages on the console.

	st0(ahc0:5:0): Target Busy

When I use the same script interactively, I get the following.

	dump 0ubdsf 126 54000 6000 /dev/nrst0 /
	  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Oct 16 16:30:16 1998
	  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
	  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0a (/) to /dev/nrst0
	  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
	  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
	  DUMP: estimated 63358 tape blocks on 0.02 tape(s).
->	  DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/nrst0".
->	  DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") yes
	  DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/nrst0".
	  DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") yes
	  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Fri Oct 16 16:30:17 1998
	  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
	  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
	  DUMP: 85.12% done, finished in 0:00

Here is an extract from 'dmesg'. Note that I manually wrapped some lines.

	ahc0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
	ahc0: interrupting at irq 9
	ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
	scsibus0 at ahc0 channel 0: 8 targets
	ahc0: target 1 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
	sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <DEC, RZ26L    (C) DEC, 442D>
	  SCSI2 0/direct fixed
	sd0: 1001MB, 3117 cyl, 8 head, 82 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2050860 sectors
	ahc0: target 2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
	sd1 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <Quantum, XP34300, L912>
	  SCSI2 0/direct fixed
	sd1: 4101MB, 3907 cyl, 20 head, 107 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8399520 sectors
	ahc0: target 5 synchronous at 3.6MHz, offset = 0xf
	st0 at scsibus0 targ 5 lun 0: <ARCHIVE, Python 25501-XXX, 2.66>
	  SCSI2 1/sequential removable
	st0: drive empty

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