> 
> First, the flow control on the console seems to be broken.  I tried a 
> 'ls' in a full directory and it came out in uneven columns, which did not 
> occur in 1.1A.
> 
Have you tried doing 'stty -tabs crt' ?

> Also, the mt device driver is reporting a lot of soft errors (timeouts),
> but seems to be writting the data correctly to tape.  I have verified this.
> Another interesting feature is that rather than getting an 'EOF' when 
> trying to tar a larger file than the tape can hold.  I get error 18 instead.
> 
The mt driver isn't 100%, I know. This will be fixed in the future.

-- Ragge