Aaron J. Grier schrieb: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:16:14AM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: >> From my experience I would say the seller is correct. I haven't tried >> using DLTVS80 tapes with DLT8000, but I know for a fact that the >> opposite can't be done - tapes that were written with DLT8000 cannot >> be read with DLTVS. The only way to re-use them would be to degauss >> them first, but I don't have that kind of equipment so I haven't >> tried. > > http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/276506.htm indicates that the 8000 > has higher magnetic strength writes than VS80, so while VS80 cannot > overwrite tapes written by 8000, I would assume that 8000 would be able > overwrite VS80 tapes. > > if anybody wants to find out for sure, I'm happy to have someone send me > a VS80-written tape in one of my DLT8000s and see if I can overwrite it.
Same here, I would give it a try. For now I canceled my eBay-buy because of this uncertainty. Greets, Stefan
