Hiya again.. Seems like this will take forever to solve, if it's at all possible to do. :) [ Arkeia Light 5.1 ] Anyway, I have a SuSE 8.2 linux up and running as a lab-server which I'd like to back up too, without spending a fortune on new hard and softwares to it. The drive I have available is a HP Colorado 20GB Travan connected to the parallel port on the computer. Then to make it available to the system I load these modules: parport paride epat pt ide-scsi So, the drive shows up at both /dev/pt0 and /dev/sg0, if I do a 'dmesg' after that, I get this output; paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) paride: epat registered as protocol 0 pt: pt version 1.04, major 96 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378 pt0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378 pt0: epat 1.02, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8-bit), delay 1 pt0: HP COLORADO 20GBe, master, blocksize 512, 9209 MB hdb: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-117 Rev: 1.07 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Then if I do a 'ls /proc/scsi' these shows up; berit:~ # ls /proc/scsi/ide-scsi . .. 0 berit:~ # ls /proc/scsi . .. ide-scsi scsi sg berit:~ # ls /proc/scsi/sg . .. allow_dio debug def_reserved_size device_hdr device_strs devices host_hdr host_strs hosts version berit:~ # So, after what I can understand, the drive really appears at '/dev/sg0', and as such, should be working with Arkeia, right? Anyway, Arkeia doesn't list the drive in autodetect, so I add it manually as a 'STD_QIC' sitting on rewind device '/dev/sg0', when I then do 'read drive' it does, it finds a tape that has an invalid label. So, I go to tapes and try to write a label but then Arkeia reports 'Error: Can't write label to tape'. Is there anyone out there who's got this type of setup to run? Please help me out here... Regards, Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting