Dear All, I was using happily my Seagate 8 MB (compressed) IDE tape for my backups until today. The tape stopped operating. Now I get these messages (in /var/log/messages) to the command mt -f /dev/ht0 status Feb 1 16:50:51 oberon kernel: ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline, 190ms tDSC Feb 1 16:50:51 oberon kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Feb 1 16:50:51 oberon kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Feb 1 16:50:51 oberon kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Feb 1 16:50:51 oberon kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 What would be the reason? Any help will be much appreciated... I am using Redhat 6.0 kernel version 2.2.5-22. -- Ahmet Sekercioglu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.