I need to transfer software off a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 server. I can not seem to read this server's tape on my other server since the tape drive (IBM Gen 5 DAT 72GB) will continuosly "eject" this DAT 8 tape. I have been able to 'tarball' most of the smaller directories with success and transferred these correct. However, I have a huge directory with numerous sub-directories and a large amount of files. I can not create either a 'tarball' nor a 'cpio file' as each crash with an signal error. What else can anyone suggest?