Not unless you specifically wrote it in LTO1 (Ultrium 1) format.

Ultrium2 (LTO2) tapes cannot be read on LTO1 drives unless they are written
with the backwardly compatible format, which would be only as dense as LTO1
(100/200GB).

Mickey Baker
Safe Data Services, LLC
Parkland, FL
"Is a sentence fragment" is a sentence fragment.


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Rahul 
Parasnis
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:45 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: lto2 IBM , LTO1 Segate

Yes I should have mention that  Media is LTO-2 .

Can we read in LTO-2 Media from IBM drive from Seagate LTO-1 drive  ?

>From: Jagtar Ghuman <jghuman AT infostream DOT ca>
>To: 'Rahul Parasnis' <rahulparasnis AT msn DOT com>
>Subject: lto2 IBM , LTO1 Segate
>Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:43:08 -0400
>
>I can't say about IBM to Seagate, but I have seen a tape written by IBM 
>LTO2
>being read by an IBM LTO1 drive. The tape media was LTO1 type.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rahul Parasnis [mailto:rahulparasnis AT msn DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:32 AM
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] lto2 IBM , LTO1 Segate
>
>
>Hello ,
>
>We have currently L40  with Seagate drives .
>We are purchasing L180 with LTO-2 IBM drives .
>
>Can we read  tape on which backup is taken by IBM LTO2 drive on  LTO-1
>Seagate drive  ?
>
>- Rahul
>
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