The 8205's I have are. Arent there also 8505's too? The biggest problem with exabyte was that they seemed to license bunches of customized versions of their firmware. If you bought an OEM drive you got a pretty vanilla unit, but some of the drives in such as IBM and some mainframe devices I have had custom firmwares which had to be duplicated into the drives to make them work properly. Later versions of AIX didn't care, but some of the earlier versions would not talk to the non IBM version of the exabyte properly. It took over a year in the mid 80's time frame for them to get both AIX and the tape drives they built with their badge to work with our software. The main problems were unreliable tape mark and end of tape behavior. It would miss tape marks all the times when we would read the tapes back, and frequently the end of tape would miss records and tape marks as well. We did not use the tapes with a preformatted capacity but relied on finding the EOT when writing to completely fill the tape. So the latter problem with EOT errors made things pretty miserable. Jim Tim Riker wrote: -- ********************************** * * note my email address is changing to jws at jwsss.com * **********************************