I am completely at odd with this problem. I have connected up both LTO 4 tape drives one at a time to the server and removed all other unnecessary hardware and I am still getting the original problem. Which is; It starts writing to the tape and then the drive makes a knocking sound once and stops. Leaving the command frozen and unable to cancel with Ctrl + C, Ctrl + Z or Ctrl + \ leaving me with no option other than to reboot. Same results with the LTO3 drive. Again, all my other tape drives work fine, the only common thing between the drives that are not working that I can see is that the drives are 320Mbps LVD not 160 LVD like the controller and other drives. I am pretty much stumped. It seems highly unlikely that the 4 different drives are all faulty with exactly the same problem. I have ordered a new SCSI cable and a 320Mbps PCI card. I will try with just the one drive with these and see what happens. Unless anyone else can suggest anything? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org