> Now I would like recommendations for large tape drives compatible with > linux. I dont care if its SCSI or IDE or something else. I would just > like something over 60-80 gig per tape that doesnt take a month to > write. look at IBM's LTO (Linear Tape Open) drives. 100 GB uncompressed; and very fast. A friend of mine admins an AIX box with a Shark drive array; and was one of the first to get some of these things. He says they're great. they aren't cheap; but I think they're slightly larger than AIT-2 (I could be wrong), and not completely unreasonably priced (at least not for IBM's target market). Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700