> But as per another suggestion, I am going to try to boot single-user, mount
>  everything, and unpack the tarballs that way.  

I had this problem when installing on my 2GB root partition. Single-user and
untar worked fine.

> Do these SCSI errors happen during use as well, or just during installation?

No, it works fine on the NetBSD side of the fence.

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