>The log entries would reference the st driver and/or the SCSI interface
>driver (aic7xxx).  You might wnat to check the other logs in /var/log
>or run dmesg to see if it is still in the kernel's log buffer.
>   If the tape drive is the only device on that SCSI chain you can safely
>cycle power on the tape drive without rebooting the machine. Don't do it
>if there is a disk on  the same interface or you might corrupt your disk
>(and read the manual, since some controllers have internal and external
>connectors for the same interface). If all else fails, power it all off
>and start over (generally the power-off sequence is from the controller
>out, and power-on is from the last device in).
>   Since the tape device worked for a short while, I would suspect problems
>with SCSI termination (either doubly terminated, or not at all).

Hm.. that would make sense. I'll have to go read up on that and make sure that I
know what I'm doing when it comes to SCSI termination. Probably don't...

I appreciate your help Frank.

JSR/