Now, I have had a different problem.  I have LTO-1 drives.  I added 2
LTO-2 drives, but no LTO-2 media.  The LTO-2 drives are an available
storage group, and I have a backup configured to use them.  However,
they will not use the LTO-1 media.  The backups fail.

Any ideas on what is happening?

-Andrew

Algo Seeker wrote:

>I have recently migrated from LTo-2 to LTO-3 and there are no issues,
>as all the media is still LTO-2. The only issue is I am not mixing
>drives, as that might be a case, when I have LTO-3 media in the robot
>and it will be suspended/frozen f I try to use in a LTO-2 drive.
>
>So in your case, as long as the drives u purchased are backward
>compatible, then u should be ok.
>
>Thanks
>
>On 6/15/05, Song <song_1977 AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all, 
>>  
>>My current setup as below : 
>>Master server = NBU5.0 (MP3) 
>>Media server = NBU4.5 
>>Library = L700 (currently have 8 LTO1 drive and going to add in few LTO2
>>tape drives using SSO). 
>>  
>>Question: 
>>1. Is it possible for LTO2 drive to backup using LTO1 tape and what's the
>>procedure to configure? 
>>2. Is it possible to configure LTO2 and LTO1 tape drive in the same library
>>to use only LTO1 tape (for temporary till we get the LTO2 tapes)? 
>>  
>>  
>>Thanks. 
>>  
>>- Song
>>
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