Hi, 
I just thought it was a good idea and tried to backup my NetBSD
partitions from within NetBSD, so I borrowed a friends tape drive.

Unfortunaly it didn't work: here is the output
(it is a 1.2.1 system with a 1.3_ALPHA #0 kernel)

...
bzivsc0 at zbus0 pa 0xea0000 man/pro 8512/17: address 0x2f28000: FAS216, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus1 at bzivsc0: 8 targets
probe(bzivsc0:3:0): max sync rate 10.00Mb/s
cd0 at scsibus1 targ 3 lun 0: <PIONEER, CD-ROM DR-U12X, 1.06> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
bzivsc0: !TC [intr 10, stat 87, step 1] prevphase 6, resid 0
bzivsc0: !TC [intr 10, stat 82, step 1] prevphase 6, resid 0
st0 at scsibus1 targ 4 lun 0: <CALIPER, CP150, A> SCSI1 1/sequential removable
st0: density code 0x10, 512-byte blocks, write-enabled
10 views configured
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
WARNING: no battery clock
root file system type: ffs
st0(bzivsc0:4:0):  Check Condition on opcode 0x1e
    SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
 COMMAND INFO:  524288 (0x80000)
     ASC/ASCQ:  No Additional Sense Information

st0(bzivsc0:4:0):  Check Condition on opcode 0x1e
    SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
 COMMAND INFO:  524288 (0x80000)
     ASC/ASCQ:  No Additional Sense Information



The tape condition codes resulted from a 'mt rewind' command
Any clue on this one ?
It worked fine with a fixed disk and a CDROM drive.

Regards,
	Ruben

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