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OK y'all the product is called : "TapeDisk" The company and Phone number are : TapeDisk Corporation – 414-231-3333 Let 'em know I sent you – it won't do YOU any good, but I bet the developers that if I posted a message on CI$, loadsa other 3D loonies would be interested. To answer your questions : I have my Exabyte configured as drive Q: (it also supports a bunch of other tape drives)…and it's formatted as a 4.9Gig Dos Drive. I have just grabbed 600 frames (with TGRAB) and specified Q:\TGA as the destination for the framestores. I jumped into windows and fired up a Batch processor I wrote for PStyler and PhotoShop. 20 Hours later, each frame has been processed by a DIFFUSE GLOW, and resaved out to Q:\NEWTGA. I then wrote each frame back to tape. As far as DOS is concerned my Exabyte is a genuine drive. The only downside is seek-time. Its kinda like a s-l-o-w CD-WORM!…at worst on my drive it takes up to 1minute to get to the file (normally 15 secs..but when the drive is 2Mg full, the time starts to get bigger). Once it gets there, it reads and writes and high speed. Since I'm not inclined to sit and watch 600 frames get processed, this seek time is irrelevant. A 5Gig drive (and removable backup media) is worth it a tiny bit of hassle IMHO. Anyhow..check it out. Maybe there's another user out there who can throw in his/her two cents.