On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Jude DaShiell wrote: > ...We were talking about tape drives before the shellworld.net hack, <snip> > red hat isn't even with kudzu all that effective in detecting parallel > port tape drives. When it comes up it tells me I have an unknown class > device tapedrive on lP0. Well this is pretty sketchy, but I'm guessing you need the ftape driver, and a rundown on how to get it working. The ftape driver modules Red Hat ships are hopelessly out of date (stock kernel distribution -- old,old,old). Here's a couple of sites that can help (you'll no doubt have to get the unstable version -- the "stable" one is not really usable). Ftape site: http://zeus.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/ Here's a vendor that has helped with instructions on getting things working, but I don't know if they have kept things up to date: http://www.LinuxTapeCert.org/ click on TechHelp -- L. C. Robinson reply to lcr@onewest.net People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html