I am just a little curious as to why my DAT drive (using dump) writes about 1 MB/s using a DDS1 tape (90Meter) and writes to tape at 4.4MB/s using a DDS3 tape? ______________________________________________________________________ Mark Szidik System Administrator Ph: 517.694.4242 x17 Fax: 517.694.9303 Michigan Library Consortium http://www.mlc.lib.mi.us