Hello, I've got a Hewlett-Packard DDS2 drive that has 'hardware compression'. Well, gzipping my data right away consumes astonishing CPU time, so I think it might be a good idea to delegate the work to the drive. BUT: does anyone know wether this LZ derivate is compatible to anything but itself? In other words: if something bad happens to my tape drive, will this render my backups useless? Or is DDS hardware compression standarised? cu, Schnobs