(which I just mentioned in a RAID thread) Which reminds me -- what's currently good in tape drives for linux? I've got an old, broken I think, HP DAT (straight DDS I think, 90 meter tapes, 2 gig uncompressed?) and tapes for it. Given what it cost to fix the last time, and the fact that I *had* to fix it once already, and the difference between 2 gig and the size disks I have these days, I probably ought to be thinking of a new drive. I don't think I can afford something big enough to do everything automatically on one set of tapes, because that would have to be a big exabyte or an autochanger, and I'd really rather not spend more than $500-$600 if I can manage it. The TR5 spec looks marginally adequate but the cartridges are expensive, and it looks like a DDS 3 DAT drive plus the number of tapes I'd need would be cheaper and faster. (Is dds 3 the 12 gig uncompressed?) Are there any stealth options that work well and are cheap? One of my servers already has ultra wide SCSI in it. I think I could find a free IDE port in one of them also. So either interface would work. What works well in current 2.2 kernels (I'm on redhat 6.2 roughly)? And can all modern DAT drives read the older DAT tapes? Write them? I'd like to use my old tapes if possible for scratch and things (obviously they're too short to back up much these days), and I'd like to see if I have old stats reports or web logs on them to build up my history section more. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/