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Morten_Wiingr1's avatar
Morten_Wiingr1
Level 3
12 years ago

LTO3 & LTO4 tapes together.

Hi, Using NBU 7.0.1 with an IBM TS 3100 tapestation. Normally I use 12 tapes in the tapestation every week. I normally use LTO3 tapes with a label like 000001L3, they are media type HCART3 in NBU...
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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    12 years ago

    LOL Martin - I am happy to join in!!

    The IBM TS 3100 tapestation is a simple autoloader type library that has either 1 or two drives

    I am guessing in this case it has one and he does say : "Now I got some new LTO4 tapes, wich the tapestation also is able to write on" so i am guessing that combined with "I only have one drive wich is a LTO4 drive"

    That being the case he doesn't need to do anything! Just let all tapes be the same density in NBU and it will use which ever one it picks, regardless of the bar code.

    But then we haven't heard from him for a couple of days so maybe he is worried about what he has started

    Always happy to join in a good debate!

    Hope this helps

Morten_Wiingr1's avatar
Morten_Wiingr1
Level 3
12 years ago

***You need LTO4 or LTO5 tape drives to use the new LTO4 tapes.

I allready have a LTO4 tape drive. My LTO4 tape drive is in NBU set as a HCART3 device.

But now I only use LTO3 tapes, because I allready have theese tapes.

 

Now I have got some new LTO4 tapes. Can they coexist with the old LTO3 tapes, if I label them just as my LTO3 tapes? Will the tape drive recognize the LTO4 tapes and be able to store more data on it?

 

/morten