Mark Barnes, > Thanks for answering. I followed your advice and used mknod to create > ht0, but I still get this response from an mt command: > > mt: dev/ht0: No such device > > /dev/ht0 is there now, major 37, minor 0. Any other ideas? Apparently I can't read. (I read "No such file" instead of "device") It would suggest that the ide-tape-driver is not loaded. Does modprobe ide-tape make any difference? -- regards, Christopher Pharo Glæserud