Quoting herve <hrichard@brutele.be>: > thank you for your response i'll try.... > can you tell me exactly what modules need to charged in order to use and ide > travan tape ? > I have the following lines in /etc/modules.conf. They seem to do the trick. Note: this is from a SuSE 7.1 system. I suspect the first line is not necessary. alias st0 st pre-install ide-scsi modprobe st HTH, Jeffrey