One feature of tape statistics is that they're as much about the *tape* as they are about the *drive*, which is uncommon for block devices. It might be useful to have a set of counters which is cleared every time a new tape is inserted into the drive. In particular, "bad reads since this tape was inserted" would be very useful for monitoring the quality of tapes. Dale -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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