Okay, I have a colorado travan 5g tape drive. It runs under /dev/pt/0 in Mandrake 8.2. tar -c -v -b 128 -f /dev/pt/0 files is the command I use to do the copying of stuff. First question, the tape drive stops and starts when copying data, it copies it, just continious stops and starts, is this normal or can I change it with the -b option? Second question, when I attempt a backup of /, I first boot to init3 and run the command. Naturally when it comes to copying /dev/pt/0 it freaks out, how do I get around this? I think I got around the errors from the "being used temps" by going to init 3, this could be false though, I don't know if it errored out b4 reaching that directory. Any help/ideas would be very cool, thank you. Linux is

-cg