Davina Treiber wrote:
>This is the theory, but sadly the reality is that this is not true. Only
>certain brands of tape will work reliably with Seagate LTO drives. Seek out
>a recommendation from Seagate's website or from your jukebox vendor, and
>stick to it no matter what. I have seen serious reliability problems with
>certain tape brands. The same tapes were OK with IBM drives, and yes I
could
>interchange data between the two makes of drive.

Congratulations!
That is the first sighting of an interoperability test with interchange of
data.

Did it work both ways? With and without compression?


greetigns,

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