I am working with a Sun 3/160 trying to install NetBSD.  In the following
example it showsthat the 3/160 reads the tape alright but when I run
edlable /dev/rsd0c it comes back with "/dev/resd0c: Device not configured".
 The tape drive is a Wangtek and is a SCSI and not using a converter board,
the drives I have tried are all SCSI (Maxtor, Seagate etc.) and are
lowlevel formated and known good.

I have tried various cartridge tapes from my archives and the result is the
same.

Any ideas why this is happening?


EXAMPLE:
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>b st()
Boot: st(0,0,0)
st: sense key = 5 error = 0
>> NetBSD tapeboot [$Revision: 1.3 $]
st: sense key = 5 error = 0
523868+289088+70140+[45420+42157]=0xecfb5
Starting program at 0x4000
console is zstty0 (ttya)
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.2 (RAMDISK) #1: Thu Oct  3 18:32:03 EDT 1996
    gwr@bach:/play/gwr/netbsd/build/sys/arch/sun3/compile/RAMDISK
Model: Sun 3/160 (hostid 110025f2)
fpu: mc68881
real mem = 8372224
avail mem = 6782976
using 63 buffers containing 516096 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
obio0 at mainbus0
zsc0 at obio0 addr 0x0 level 6 (softpri 3)
kbd0 at zsc0 channel 0
ms0 at zsc0 channel 1
zsc1 at obio0 addr 0x20000 level 6 (softpri 3)
zstty0 at zsc1 channel 0 (console)
zstty1 at zsc1 channel 1
eeprom0 at obio0 addr 0x40000
clock0 at obio0 addr 0x60000 level 5
memerr0 at obio0 addr 0x80000 (ECC memory)
intreg0 at obio0 addr 0xa0000
ie0 at obio0 addr 0xc0000 level 3 hwaddr 08:00:20:01:78:72
obmem0 at mainbus0
vmes0 at mainbus0
si_vmes_match: May be an `sc' board at pa=0xff200000
vmel0 at mainbus0
 fixed, 512 blocksWARNING: bad date in battery clock -- CHECK AND RESET THE
DATE
!
WARNING: no swap space found

        Welcome to the NetBSD/sun3 RAMDISK root!

This environment is designed to do only three things:
1:  Partititon your disk (use the command:  edlabel /dev/rsd0c)
2:  Copy a miniroot image into the swap partition  (/dev/rsd0b)
3:  Reboot (using the swap partition, i.e. /dev/sd?b).

Copying the miniroot can be done several ways, allowing
the source of the miniroot image to be on any of these:
    boot tape,  NFS server, TFTP server, rsh server

The easiest is loading from tape, which is done as follows:
        mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind
        mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 2
        dd bs=32k if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b
(For help with other methods, please see the install notes.)

To reboot using the swap partition, first use "halt",
then at the PROM monitor prompt use a command like:
        b sd(,,1) -s

To view this message again, type:  cat /.welcome
ssh:
ssh: edlabel /dev/rsd0c
/dev/rsd0c: Device not configured
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Thanks,
Rick Copeland