I have an 8mm tape that is supposed to be a tar from a Sun system. When I run "mt -f /dev/st1 status" it tells me that the block size is 1024 so I use the following command to read the tap, "tar -b 2 -tf /dev/st1" but I still get a tape read error. Any suggestions? ------ David Hamm - dhamm at itserve.com --------