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Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 and LTO2 compatibility

2007-11-01 17:51:27
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 and LTO2 compatibility
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:34:04 +0000
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:11:57PM -0500, Major, Rusty wrote:
> I need to send some tapes to a site with LTO2 drives. Unfortunately, we
> are running LTO3. Will they still be able to read these tapes?

No.  Backward compatibility isn't usually possible.  The LTO3 format
will have a higher density than the older drives can work with.

> If this won't work, if I duped them to LTO2 MEDIA, but still written
> from an LTO3 drive, would that be compatible with the LTO2 drives on the
> other end?

Yes, it should.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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