I had the ATL support engineer in here yesterday and he told me that the 1st
generation SDLT's have been released. They are not backwards compatible because
they do not have the read/write head necessary, but that the second generation
would.
Scott Caddell
Strategic Server Operations
Intersil Corporation
Palm Bay, FL
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Ben-Haim [mailto:miriam AT techunix.technion.ac DOT il]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 4:38 AM
To: RYAN ANDERSON
Cc: Veritas NBU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SuperDLT?
On Tue, 1 May 2001, RYAN ANDERSON wrote:
>Has anyone heard about the status of SuperDLTs? We are going to get a
>new tape library soon and want SDLT drives in it, but StorageTek only
>has a 'coming soon' listed on their website. I heard
>rumor/gossip/hearsay that the drives were released already, then
>distribution halted temporarily because of backward compatibility
>issues. Is this true? Is anyone using SDLT?
I also heard that standalone SDLT drives are available, but not yet in
libraries.
>I'm seriously looking at LTO as an option. Are you people who are using
>it liking it? One scenario would be to go to LTO drives in an L700 or
>something, then down the road when my library with DLT7000 drives is
>phased out, just slap a DLT7K or two in the L700 as a separate storage
>unit for backward reading of my old tapes. Anyone doing this?
Since you cannot transfer DLT7000 drives from an older library to L700,
I think it would be better (in case you want to keep using your DLT
tapes) to buy at least 1 DLT8000 drive, which can re-use the DLT tapes
with 40-80GB. In the L700 you can put both DLT, SDLT and LTO, so the
rest of the drives can be added later. I don't know of any other library
that enables this mixture in its basic configuration. It is a big
advantage for such a situation.
We too, are in the same stage of debating between the new tape
technologies. We have STK 9710 which we want to keep using with the 800
tapes we have, and we need another library. We tend to get a library
with 1-2 drives (probably DLT8K) and wait with the decision between LTO
and SDLT till the general direction is more clear.
Miriam
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