There appears to be a bug in the way that Redhat decides to load the ST module. It checks to see if /proc/scsi/scsi is present then it checks for a tape device. The problem is that /proc/scsi/scsi doesn't exist if the tape drive is the only device on the SCSI chain. So, I manually load the ST module and my SCSI module, advansys in my case, in rc.local. Now I don't get Amdump rewind errors. Just posting this to help other people. -- Cheers, Karl Bellve, Ph.D. ICQ # 13956200 Biomedical Imaging Group TLCA# 7938 University of Massachusetts Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (508) 856-6514 Fax: (508) 856-1840 PGP Public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]