On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:25:13AM -0400, Donofrio, Lewis wrote:
> This is my first post here - I thought people should never use tape hw
> compression because each vendor implements their own compression
> protocols.  Say you need to restore files from a different tape host and
> if your not using the exact same hw vendor then you might have an
> *issue* or two? 

My understanding is that the tape formats are "standards" defined
by some organization of vendors that specify the compression
protocols among other things.  Thus any DDS-3 tape should be
readable on other vendors DDS-3, and DLT-IV the same, ...

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