hmmm, coming up every time the same *is* the default behavior. There must be something wrong with your machine.

I can only guess, but i suspect that something with the ODM is wrong and therefore the cfgmgr which runs at boot time tries (probably in vain) to correct that. Maybe the following helps: completely remove the tape drive from the ODM (use "rmdev -dl" generously) and make sure the tape drive shows up nowhere in the ODM (check CuAt and PdDv tables primarily). Then reboot the machine so that the drives configuration is written anew.

I hope this helps.

bakunin