[ale] DLT drive / media compatibility

[Jim Kinney]

You will need a small battery of drives as about every 3rd generation or so
backwards compatibility was lost.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> I've been using LTO drives for the last 5+ years.
>
> I now need to understand DLT drive / media compatibility and I'm totally
> lost.
>
> Does anyone know a website that shows a simple matrix of all the media
> and drive types with a check box if it is compatible?
>
> Seems like a simple question, but I've looked at the Wikipedia entry
> and I know less now than when I started.  (Or maybe it is truer to say
> my level of ingnorance was increased by reading the wikipedia entry.)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape#Drives
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape#Media
>
> Apparently there are 10 kinds of media and 19 kinds of drives and
> there are branches in the tree.
>
> We want to be able to read as many different kinds of DLT as we can
> cost effectively.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
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