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I know questions about tape drives are possibly out of scope for code4lib, but I'll try anyway. Do I need to tweak my Linux kernel in order for my computer to recognize my internal SCSI tape drive? I recently purchased a new piece of hardware from Dell. As requested, it came completely clean. I installed Fedora 5 on it, and it is up an running. The hardware came with a PowerVault (SCSI) tape drive, and for the life of me I can't get anything written to the tape. I use this command: tar cvf /dev/st0 / But tar comes back and says there is no such device. I use MAKEDEV to create devices (from SCSI ID 0 - 7), and while files are created in / dev I still get "no such device" errors. Maybe I need turn something on in a kernel configuration file somewhere? I think I see the device listed during the BIOS boot process. Do I need a driver? What am I doing wrong? What am I missing? -- Eric Morgan