On the new ULTRIUM LTO tape format, Greg noted: > And, this will become interesting when HP is committed enough > to it to make it available to the 3000... > --- HP ENDORSES THE ULTRIUM FORMAT (Press Release) > Reinforcing its commitment to the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) > technology, Hewlett-Packard Company today announced its > decision to recommend Ultrium products across its future > UNIX® system and NT server family .... > URL: http://www.hp.com/pressrel/jul99/26jul99d.htm After which Donna does the deja vu all over again thing: > look at what was brought to my attention: > www.hp.com/tape/papers/tapealert.html > how interesting! a quick look points out that (yet again) > there's no plan to bring this to mpe <sigh> - d FIRST: A couple other direct links to interesting details on what are apparently the two different versions of the new LTO format: http://www.ultrium.com/ultrium.html http://www.ultrium.com/accelis.html SECOND: I immediately went to the Interex web site at: http://www.hpworld.com/conference/hpworld99/sessions/rdtbls.html and submitted the "What about LTO for the HP 3000" question.... Ken Sletten