Hi again, My foray into tape rules has come to an abrupt halt. I'm sure scsi_id is more confused that I am. I'm running it against a scsi attached HP Ultrium-1 drive gatekeeper by-id # scsi_id --whitelisted --export -d /dev/st2 ID_VENDOR=HP ID_MODEL=C7438A ID_REVISION=ZU5A ID_SERIAL=1HP_C7438A_HU107108XD ID_SERIAL_SHORT=HP_C7438A_HU107108XD ID_TYPE=tape tapeinfo says gatekeeper by-id # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'HP ' Product ID: 'Ultrium 1-SCSI ' Revision: 'N27D' Attached Changer: No SerialNumber: 'HU84H06998' MinBlock:1 MaxBlock:16777215 SCSI ID: 1 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: no scsi_id is really mangling that serial number!! (short and long) Regards, John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html