First thanks for everyone for their suggestions on my tape drive isuse. The issue was that it locked up when I did a mt -f /dev/st0 status. It would show most of the messages but then do a hard lock on the last message. My environment is AMD 2500xp ASUS A7V8X motherboard Adaptec 29160 controller (not a 19160) Seagate DDS4 tape drive.Model STD6401LW SuSe Professional 9.1 The solution was to go in to the Adaptec bios at bootiup, (I believe the latest version is 3.10.0), and go to SCSI device configuration, then select the SCSI ID of the tape drive from the list, and change "Enable Disconnection" to "NO", then reboot. This fixed my lockup problem, and was listed under a NetWare error on Adaptec's site. Anyway thanks again for everyones help.