On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 01:18:16PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> it's a Quantum Scalar PX502. I'm not sure what brand the drives itself
> are.  I kind of assumed the L1...L4 was there for humans only as my
> other Quantum LTO2 drive accepts LTO-2 tapes with L1 labels just fine
> (and uses them as LTO-2 tapes)

Humans and robots.  The drive can't see or read the barcode, but robots
can.  Some of them are configured to avoid putting LTO4 barcodes into
LTO3 drives as an example.

-- 
Darren

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