On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:28 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Is there any more info I can provide here for you? dmesg output? > Here's the latest output from dmesg with the lockup of the drive, > which takes a power cycle to clear now. Well, I suspect the tape is hanging the bus, from which no card can recover. Just to test this, can you try sending a bus reset with sgutils (from the debain package sg3-utils): sg_reset -b /dev/sg3 Then remove and re-add the device with echo scsi remove-single-device 1 0 6 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi echo scsi add-single-device 1 0 6 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi And see if that brings it back. If it doesn't I'm afraid the tape has the bus locked and nothing can free it. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html