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burtos
Level 5
14 years ago

LTO5 incompatible media error

Im on Backup Exec 2010 and have put in 2 LTO5 tapes done an inventory for them, and get the following error message. Incompatible media has been detected in the slot. The most likely causes for thi...
2010
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
  • ZeRoC00L's avatar
    ZeRoC00L
    14 years ago

    An IBM ULT3580-TD4 is an LTO4 drive, it cannot read/write LTO5 tapes !

burtos's avatar
burtos
Level 5
14 years ago

kiran bandi - i have done tried this, created a barcode rule ran the inventory and than disabled the rule, but still the error message appears

ZeroC00L -  They do have L5 on the end of the labels, device manager shows the following under tape drives - IBM ULT3580-TD4 SCSI Sequential Device.  Also within Backup Exec the drive properties are as follows

Vendor - IBM

Product ID - ULT3580-TD4

Firmware - 8371

Drive Type - LTO 64K (64K,10,0,E,HU)

Media Type - LTO