jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU write:
>> i think it is because the cartriges are hardformatted to 2048bytes/sector.
>
> Yes, that's a good guess. The pmax drivers just won't handle 2048
> bytes/sector properly. The kernel simply should not crash, even so,
> but I would not expect this to work.  (I'm afraid I cannot remember
> the name of the Japanese contributor passed away earlier this year,
> who did so much work to support this.  But that would probably have to
> wait till the pmax uses the MI scsi code.)

Weirdly, I can guess the name of MO driver contributor.  Jonathan, try
to contact Noriyuki Soda if you really want to know.  He gave you a
pointer.  Of couse, I agree that NetBSD/pmax can not handle non-512 MO
medium before MI SCSI. 

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology