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[Networker] Using LTO3 in LTO4 drives?

2010-04-29 22:32:51
Subject: [Networker] Using LTO3 in LTO4 drives?
From: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:31:15 -0400
Is it a problem to recycle older LTO-3 media in LTO-4 drives and label these into the same tape pool? This is in an all LTO-4 drive tape library.

I've had no issues reading from LTO3 tapes in the LTO4 drives, and they are supposed to be backward write compatible (haven't tried that yet), but will NW span mixed tapes properly, assuming all drives are LTO4?

George

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