>I'm not talking about tapes as a media, I'm talking about how the tapes are >recorded. Especially real carts are written "indirectly".
I don't know what you mean. I will re-state my assertion. Using 'direct' tape, IE: a batch job writing to a tape, is what I have seen as still growing. Along with such indirect methods as HSM. When in doubt. PANIC!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
