Hi,
I just installed NetBSD 2.2 on a server that provides basic file 
services for macintoshes....love netBSD, love it too much,
everythign is perfect on it but have one problem..sorry for this but is 
the first netBSD server I setup with this tape drive.

my problem:
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1)mt /dev/st0 erase
hangs on erase and returns an I/O error

2) don't think i get reliable backups using mt

setup:
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Seagate DDS-4 4mm SCSI Tape drive on Adaptec 2940UW..no SCSI problems, 
card is fine, tape drive is fine

temporary solution:
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wrote a script to do backups using tar (good backups here), but can't 
seem to find a way to erase using tar on netbsd, so i think i need mt


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Is there anything specific I need to do to the DDS-4 to make it 
available for erases in 'mt'?, is there anything on 'mt' i need to do?
need some guidance on how to properly set this up for netBSD backups

thanks
jesus garcia