> Oops... sorry.. it was just an assumption. I guess I assumed wrong. I > hate to be stupid but... where do I start to look for resolution or who > do I grab to help me out with this? For the moment I'm just waiting. Tejun was looking at a similar case with a CD drive which said "I'm a disk" when the reset occurred followed by "I'm a CD" when asked. The same fixes may well sort out the tape drive too. (Basically a device has a 'signature' on reset that tells you what it is, and then there is an identify command which gives more info. If the two disagree as to the type of device then right now we get quite upset and try resetting the device to make it talk sense. For the devices that genuinely in firmware give confusing answers repeatedly resetting them does not of course make them talk sense).
