[ On Friday, May 26, 2000 at 10:54:42 (-0400), NetBSD Bob wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Continuing sun3 nbsd142 funzies.....
>
> Darn... I wish I had your luck.  I spent about 8 hours last night rolling
> tapes of every NetBSD sun3 release, and not one of them booted.  Yet,
> sunos is running fine on it now.  All the tapes were fine, written on
> my 4/360, so it is not the tapes.

Did you actually boot one of those tapes on the same machine that wrote
it?  Did you try moving the tape drive that wrote them onto the machine
you're trying to boot?  I.e. just because a tape is written "fine", and
even if it works fine on the machine that wrote it, doesn't mean it'll
work on any other machine.  QIC-60 (and even QIC-150) drives are far
more reliable than even 3.5" floppies in this respect (at least in my
experience), but they can still have interchange problems.

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