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Dom, Nope…it should't harm the drive at all. BTW, I've got 2 tapes here, one is a standard DC-600, we use them at work for our 60 Meg drives and have used them for the 120 Meg drives, we did have a few problems on the 120 meg drives after several passes. A check with Bell Labs (it's an AT&T system) and they said their tests showed that the DC-600's formulation isn't "coercive" enough for the 120 for more than about 10 full passes….after that you get problems (our experience) but that using the DC=6320 (320 Meg tapes) worked ok, we tried them…and yes they worked ok…but of course still only gave us 120 Meg. You see..the DC-600's are 600 feet long, the DC-6320's are only 20 feet longer. The difference in capacity is based on the tape media formulation being able to handle the higher density writing that a 320 meg drive uses. Which, of course, still leaves the issue open as to whether the differnece between your 150 meg mode and 250 meg mode is write density or tape length. But I personally wouldn't worry about trying a 250 Meg tape in it and seeing what happens. Don