on 2/7/01 9:29 AM, Douglas Meade at inforum@umd5.umd.edu wrote something
like:

> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> [snipped]
>> 
>> This argument stands for future NetBSD work in spite of the fact that some
>> ports (ahem, pmax) still haven't fixed their preexisting, historic SCSI
>> drivers to use the scsipi subsystem properly.
> 
> I don't know about this.  How come the TK50 works flawlessly with my
> DECstations, but I can't get it to talk with the Vaxstation 4000/90
> or 3100/76 without loads of SENSE ERRORS?  I brought up this issue
> with 1.4.3.  I set it aside for awhile.  I just tried 1.5 yesterday,
> and it still has the same problems.
> 
> Doug

    Mostly because the 4.4BSD SCSI driver has been hAcKeD to make the
tk50/tz30 tk/tz anything work right on an individual basis (IIRC). From what
I gather the earlier tape drives were/are a mess to get working right.


    Chris