Steve_4
11 years agoLevel 4
Tape Drive Error "You have loaded a cartridge of a type that is read-only in this drive".
Hi all,
Recently I swapped a Dell Powervault TL2000 LTO-4 with an LTO-6 TL2000 including LTO-6 Tape Drives.
I duplicated the settings between the two devices
I duplicated the virtual s...
- 11 years ago
The "insert overwritable tape" message indicates that you do not have sufficient overwritable tape for you job. This is another problem pertaining to your media sets.
You can put your LTO4 tape drive into your library, but you would need an LEO licence in BE to operate it.
If you do put in your LTO4 tape drive, you need to set up your barcode rules for
LTO4 - read LTO4, LTO3, LTO2, write LTO4, LTO3
LTO6 - read LTO6, LTO5, LTO4, write LTO6, LTO5
LTO tape drives read 2 generation back and write to 1 generation back.
As an aside, I don't know why you bought LTO5 tapes when you have a LTO6 tape drive. When you read and write a LTO5 tape with a LTO6 tape drive, you will get slower performance.