On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 14:06 -0800, Nina Pham wrote: > I can see the tape is loaded by doing mt –f /dev/st0 status. How do I > view the content on the tape? Nina, Depends on the content of the tape. If it's a tar archive # tar tf /dev/st0 For cpio, IIRC (dusting cobwebs from remote corner of core memory) # cpio -itF /dev/st0 Phil