> Thanks Darren,
> 
> In jbedit it asks if the tape drive will be shared.  I thought that 
> meant two drives could work together
> to save large data sets faster than one drive working alone.  However it 
> might mean sharing the tape drive between
> two hosts, which wouldn't apply to this situation.

That's exactly correct.  There's no way to distribute one datastream
across multiple drives.

You can try to split a filesystem into multiple streams, but that isn't
usually the easiest thing to do.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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