veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu <> wrote on Sunday, May 30, 2004 
10:10 PM:

> LTO2 use different media from LTO1 and LTO1 media can be
> written by LTO2 with LTO1 format.
> Put the tapes to the same density and the LTO2 drives will understand the
> tapes. you don't have to freeze anything.The only disadvantage is
> that LTO1 tapes are 15-30MB/sec and LTO2 are 30-60MB/sec and
> the new drive will not change it.

 Depends. With IBM Ultrium-2 (LTO-2), numbers are (w/o compression):

 LTO1 tape in LTO1 drive will read/write at 15 MB/s.
 LTO1 tape in LTO2 drive will read/write at 20 MB/s.


 Cordialement - fx

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