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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Archive Viper 150 (SCSI)
Date: 26 Sep 1995 22:15:13 +0100
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Geert Bosch <geert@sun3.iaf.nl> wrote:

>   st0(nrc0:2:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST
>   st0: cannot select requested mode

Does it work on subsequent attempts?

The code in 2.0.5 had a problem when there had been a tape in the
drive at boot-time.  The first attempt to access the tape failed.

>What means 'Archive Viper 150 is a known rogue'?

That it's got some special handling inside the driver.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)