Kelly J. Lipp wrote:

 "For those of you contemplating using LTO in a SAN, careful there too.
  There are some problems making that work."

The August 7th Computerworld magazine had an article entitled
"Skittish Users Say Hype About SANs is 'Baloney'", highlighting
the over-promotion of SANs by vendors, when there is little or
no standardization, and interoperability problems abound.
(See: http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO48238,00.html)
Proceding with immature technology is always perilous.

  Richard Sims, BU