I'm having a tough time appending data onto my tape drive. I have a Colorado 14Gb IDE drive. If I put in a new tape, and do a: cd / tar -cvf /dev/ht0 . everything works fine. After that, tar -rvf ........... does not work. I read the man page for 'mt', but am not quite sure what I got out of it. Anyone want to give a quick lesson? Mike mgcon@getnet.com http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon Phoenix, AZ USA