Hi, Hi, I have been googling, and can't find anything that will help me: mt -f /dev/st0 status /dev/st0: No such device or address Any suggestion? I am using CentOS 3 [RHEL ES3 without the licenses] The tape drive is recognized at boot [from dmesg] scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs blk: queue d3e53014, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) (scsi0:A:11): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) Vendor: EXABYTE Model: VXA-2 Rev: 100E Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue d37a7e14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0 scsi : 0 hosts left. I also get: cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: none dir -l /proc/scsi/scsi -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 26 16:23 /proc/scsi/scsi Here is the output of lsmod: Module Size Used by Not tainted nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean) nls_cp437 5148 0 (autoclean) vfat 13036 0 (autoclean) fat 38872 0 (autoclean) [vfat] raid1 15020 0 (unused) raid0 3976 0 (unused) linear 2088 0 (unused) loop 12120 0 ide-tape 53264 0 (autoclean) soundcore 6468 0 (autoclean) st 31716 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 35680 0 (autoclean) cdrom 33696 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] autofs 13364 0 (autoclean) (unused) e1000 76096 1 floppy 58160 0 (autoclean) sg 36972 0 (autoclean) scsi_mod 110376 2 (autoclean) [st sg] microcode 5848 0 (autoclean) keybdev 2976 0 (unused) mousedev 5524 0 hid 22212 0 (unused) input 5920 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] ehci-hcd 20136 0 (unused) usb-uhci 26412 0 (unused) usbcore 79424 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci] ext3 88104 2 jbd 52464 2 [ext3] Here is the kernel: uname -r 2.4.21-15.EL.c0 -- Thanks centos at 911networks.com When the network has to work