>>>>> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com> writes: Alvin> if the device is full... you have too much data.... The device isn't full. When I issued the tar command, it worked for a few seconds and then gave me the error message. Nothing went to tape. -- Robert Koss, Ph.D. | Training, Mentoring, Contract Development Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design, C++, Java www.objectmentor.com | Extreme Programming