Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > >> Media type is completely arbitrary. If you want the new drive to be able >> to share media with the old drive, you should use the same media type. >> If not, you should have them be different. It would be best if you could >> make a supported media type list, to allow for backward compatible >> drives, but that's not possible at present. > > This is something I raised at least 2-3 years ago. There's been no > apparent interest in solving the issue and likely won't be until one of > the developers encounters the problem. > > Supported media lists would have to cover r/w and ro support: > > LTO drives are r/w compatible with the previous generation, but read only > with the one before that. > > ie: LTO4 can R/W LTO3 tapes, but only read LTO2 and can't read LTO1 at all. > > (As far as I can tell these are _minimum_ specs for LTO. It's perfectly > possible to exceed them and produce a LTO4 drive which can write LTO2 and > read LTO1, but as far as I know no manufacturer has done that yet.
Sure about that?, the marketing material I've seen shows only read-only capabillity one-generation back and write capabillity one generation, if the tape was un-used before (never written before). -- Jesper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
