We had 2 Dell LTO drives and they worked fine with non-dell branded tapes. The Dell tapes were Fuji at that time but we used Verbatim tapes. We did have a issue with the very first LTO library they came out with years ago, but after working with them and the real manufacture it turned out to be a firmware issue that they corrected.
-----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: dell rant Wow! I'm glad that IBM isn't that picky. We're using whatever LTO cartridge we can buy in our IBM tape drive for the AS/400. I've found that Amazon is a great place to find low-cost tapes. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: dell rant yeah, we usually avoid Dell, but we inherited a customer with an aging set of Dell servers and Dell LTO backup drive in a datacenter. The tape drive would error out with any tape or cleaning cartridge that wasn't a Dell-branded cartridge. ridiculous. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
