Chris Baird  (cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au) wrote:

>I've got an Archive Python 25501/4520NT tape drive connected to a 1.4.1
>SE/30, and after reading the first ~1/2 megabyte from a tape the system
>freezes hard (can't NMI into the debugger).  The drive is known working,
>tape okay, terminated, unique SCSI id, SCSI1 mode, etc., etc...
>
>Have I been bitten by flakey scsi driver code? Any suggestions for
>other possible culprits?

Are you running with a GENERIC or SBC kernel?  My tape drive runs fine 
under GENERIC, but chokes on an SBC kernel.

-bob