On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 at 4:40pm, Charles Lacroix wrote > I know this won't help you much but just assume that tapes are very slow ... This is no longer a valid assumption with tapes. LTO3 (yes, I know that's not what the OP is using) gets 80MB/s natively. I wouldn't call that slow. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University