I've had issues with similar results on my HP DL servers. If the tape drive was using the cciss driver I ended up putting a line like this in my rc.local to make sure it loaded correctly. echo "engage scsi" > /proc/dirver/cciss/cciss0 HTH, -- Magnus Andersen Systems Administrator / Oracle DBA Walker & Associates, Inc. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list