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Sydney, 23 April 2001

Greetings,

I connected a Sony STD-7000 SCSI-2 tape drive to my (new) NetBSD 1.5
system.
The drive is recognized at the boot time:

...
ahc: target2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset=0xf
st0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <SONY, STD-7000, 0300> SCSI2
1/sequential removable
st0: drive empty
...

In the /dev, I've got:

...
brw-rw----	1	root	operator	5, 0 Apr 24 05:4	st0
...

When I try to backup:

# find . -print | cpio -ocv > /dev/st0

I am getting a few line:

.
./local
./local/bin
./local/lib
./local/libdata
./local/libexec
ahc1: target 2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
Apr 24 06:28:28 /netbsd: ahc: target 2 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset =
0xf
Found end of tape. To continue, type device/file name when ready

and the tape is ejected.

This is a 4-8 GB DDS tape drive, it was upgraded to the latest BIOS
version
(0300), and it was lab tested - with a 0.007 failure rate/24hrs
continuous
recording.

The tape is a Sony Premium120P data cartridge (native capacity 4.0GB,
120m/394 feet DDS2), brand new - so I can't suspect a faulty hardware.

The system is a new install, running a `vanilla` kernel.  Do I have to
reconfigure
the kernel in order to include SCSI tape drive support, or there is
something else
I have to do to make this tape drive work.

Regards,

Ioan Nemes
inemes@transylvania.com.au
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