I wrote: > A reliable way to reproduce this is: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rst0 bs=32k count=1 > dd if=/dev/rst0 of=/dev/null bs=16k > NetBSD 1.1/i386, ncr.c, HP35480A DAT tape. Apparently, this has been fixed when Paul Kranenburg applied the patch to st.c in kern/1597 back in January. Thanks to Theo de Raadt for giving me the critical hint that allowed me to find this in the PR database. -- Christoph Badura O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag