>>>>> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alvin> if the device is made properly... it should be like Alvin> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/ht0 Alvin> until "ls -la /dev/ht0" looks liek the above line... there Alvin> is no point to doing any mt/tar commands.. Okay, a few chgrp's and chmod's later, my ls -al looks like you want it to look. But I still get: mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind mt: /dev/ht0: Input/output error -- Robert Koss, Ph.D. | Training, Mentoring, Contract Development Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design, C++, Java www.objectmentor.com | Extreme Programming