I'm having nothing but troubles with my SCSI Tape drives. PLEASE HELP!!! I lost one server because a drive failed and I couldn't backup the drive. This is the error I get when I try to tar to the drives. gatekeeper:/ # tar -cvf /dev/st1 ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/lost+found/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090265.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090267.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090268.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/descriptions/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/comments/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/P1090265.jpg tar: /dev/st1: Cannot write: Input/output error tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Here is my configuration: SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional ASUS P5A Super Socket 7 Motherboard AMD K6-2 500MHz 256MB PC133 SDRAM WD 100GB EDIE Quantum 20GB EIDE ASUS 40X EIDE CDROM ASUS SC875 NCR 53c875 controllerd PCI SCSI Card Sony SDT-5200 DDS2 SCSI Tape Drive IBM Branded Seagate Python DDS3 SCSI Tape Drive 3Com 3C590 10BaseT NIC D-Link DE-220P PnP ISA NIC Everything works great except for the SCSI tapes, everything is also seen too. Here is the details from proc. gatekeeper:/ # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.30 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 743B Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 The SCSI card is auto terminating, so I have removed the Power Term and Termination off of both drives, since they are on the same cable. Thank you in advance for any help that you can offer me! Don -- http://slovakia.homeip.net