On 03/29/18 03:44, itlinux_igtp wrote: > LTO technology is backwards compatible two generations from 1 to 7 and > one gen on LTO-8, so an LTO-8 drive should be able to read and write > LTO-7. https://www.lto.org/technology/lto-generation-8/ > > I'm not sure why you would like to label an LTO-7 as LTO-8 tape (will > most likely cause trouble) but you can do so by using an LTO-8 barcode > tag (last element in the barcode tag is used to define the LTO > generation, so L8 whould do the trick) I create the ones I use here: > https://tapelabel.de/
You missed a detail. Labelling an LTO-7 tape as LTO-M8 enables you to get a 50% capacity increase *on LTO-7 media* in an LTO-8 drive. (Whereas native LTO-8 media is double the capacity of LTO-7.) But I believe it has to be never-written new media. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
