In a message dated 9/11/03 11:42:37 PM, dgass at swbell.net writes: << Strange. I've stored thousands of gigabytes to the various flavors of 8MM Exabyte drives and have had very little data loss, usually bad tapes. I especially like the 20G/40G Mammoth drives, though for cheap price on both drive and media, the 8505 is hard to beat. >> Yup...not sure if I had a bad drive or if Retrospect just didn't like it. Anyway, went with the DDS drive...it just works. YMMV! Cheers! Andrew