Many thanks to Don and Corinna for their help. For those that could encounter the same problem, the solution is this: I hadn't understood that NT numbers the tapes drives according to their encounter rank (0 for the first, 1 for the second...) and not according to their SCSI LUN. So if you've got one tape drive, it's device path will be //./tape0, independently of its SCSI LUN. Now everything works. Cheers, Jean-Hugues Zorio -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]