>  I did not say that you should be able to achieve 90% of your tape
>  capacity.  You may be confusing media utilization with what I said about
>  tape DRIVE utilization.  I do believe you should be shooting for 90% of
>  your THROUGHPUT capacity, which is your native throughput rate times the
>  average compression ratio you're getting on your data.  Failure to do so
>  causes more than cost issues.  It will cause your drives to fail more
>  often as they will be shoeshining.

Curtis, I apologize for misinterpreting your statement.  Your seminar
was very informative and I even got my org to buy your book.  Very
helpful to me.  Thank you for the clarification.

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