Hello, When the shell (ttyN) goes into power saving mode everything goes with it. Occasionally I back up onto slow media (tape or Zip). It used to be that I could leave the system too it, but now I have to sit with it since even disk I/O stops as soon as the screen goes black ! Should this happen ? I can't even remember how to switch off the tty power saving mode ! This also happens in X, which is why I switched to using a tty. Owen
