Networker

Re: [Networker] Trouble reading DLT8000 on SDLT320 drive

2003-01-28 14:31:24
Subject: Re: [Networker] Trouble reading DLT8000 on SDLT320 drive
From: Davina Treiber <treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:31:24 -0500
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:58:12 -0500, Craig, Albert <ACraig AT ANAPHARM DOT COM> 
wrote:

>I am having a heck of a time reading DLT8000 on SDLT320 drives that we just
installed. I suspect a hardware problem but I am still troubleshooting. Can
this be done? I have to move the DLT8000 drives to a library at another site
and setup a storage so I really need backward compatability for restoring
from DLT8000 drives.
>
>
>Runing: Legato Networker 6.1.2 on Win2K SP2
>Storagetek L40
>2 Quantum DLT8000 drives and
>2 Quantum SDLT320 drives.

Probably a block size issue. SDLT, SDLT320, and DLT7000 use a 128KB block
size in NetWorker, whereas DLT8000 uses 96KB. You should be able to get
round it by setting the appropriate environment variables at the right
times, but it could be a bit messy.

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