Maybe this accounts for a similar bug in the VMS 6.x software, making it
impossible to remount a tape after dismount, until you physically reload
the tape with some TK50 drives.

History repeating itself =P

Michel.


-- 
 Michel van der Laan	-	michel@nijenrode.nl
				http://www.nijenrode.nl/~michel
In your mail from 22-11-1998 you write:
> > I have a MicroVAX running NetBSD 1.3.2. KA650, 32MB, DEQNA, TK50. I used
> > this system to write the two TK50 files needed to install a fresh system
> > to a tape.  The writing succeeded.  But when I tried to unmount the tape 
> > with the  'mt -f /dev/rmt8 rewoffl'  command,  the message 'mt0: unknown
> > opcode 0x88 status 0x0 ignored'  appeared and the console prompt did not
> > return,  and all keystrokes were just echoed to the screen without being
> > executed. All I could do was press the halt button.
> > 
> > Am I having  a hardware problem,  or has someone else also had this tape
> > unmounting problem?
> > 
> This is a software bug; I fixed it a couple of months ago. All different
> TMSCP controllers return different responses, and I haven't been able
> to track them all down yet :-)
> 
> -- Ragge