At 01:55 PM 4/26/2000 -5, you wrote:
>It's my understanding that the LTO drives are strictly streaming
>devices.  One person I've talked with indicated that LTO will be very
>fast, if you can supply the data. If not, you will be very
>disappointed in it's performance. If the drive has to back-hitch,
>performance will be severely affected.  From what I've read, IBM
>claims that Magstar drives back-hitch much faster than any streaming
>tape drive.
>
>Thoughts?

I actually heard that the LTO ultrium drives will be variable speed, to
alleviate the back-hitch problems.  I only heard this from one source, and
do not know this definitively.  I would be interested in a definitive
answer on this one.