Hi All, I have an xSeries ES4 machine 2.6.9-5.ELsmp which takes my tape drive offline after a cpio backup. Reboot brings it back online. find pro data home etc -print | cpio -ocB | dd ibs=1k obs=64k of=/dev/st0 anyone experiencing anything similar? Im thinking that a driver is having a problem with the 2.6 kernel? Any ideas? Now doing backups Backing up / 155170 blocks 775850+0 records in 12122+1 records out dd: closing output file `/dev/st0': Input/output error Errors were encountered during backup - ABORTING dmesg | grep scsi scsi0 : IBM PCI ServeRAID 7.10.18 Build 731 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 15, lun 0, type 3 Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 1, id 13, lun 0, type 1 Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi0, channel 2, id 8, lun 0, type 3 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 1, id 13, lun 0 scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 1 id 13 lun 0 cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 15 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.00 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 13 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: VS160 Rev: 2200 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 08 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: 02R0962a S320 1 Rev: 1 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 thanks Greg ##################################################################################### This email has been scanned by MailMarshal, an email content filter. ##################################################################################### -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list