On August 15, Mzthompson(a)aol.com wrote: That means "the format used by the Exabyte 8200 8mm drive". Lots of things used (and still use) those drives...just about every computer company in existence used Exabyte drives at one time or another over the past ten years. They're standard SCSI and fast enough to be quite useful...if you don't sell 'em to that guy, they're nice drives for running backups. 2.3gb per tape, and very well-understood by the world at large. I can't imagine that the other guy is having problems finding them, though...they're all over the place. -Dave McGuire