A Tape Drives And Media; Supported Tape Drives; T9840; Tape Drive And Media Comparisons - Oracle StorageTek SL3000 System Assurance Manual

This appendix provides basic information about the tape drives and media supported
by the SL3000 library. For more information, refer to the tape drive section on the
corporate website:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/tape-storage/ove
rview/index.html
Additionally, for more information about the T-series tape drives, refer to the drive
specific System Assurance Guide. For more information about LTO drives, refer to the
LTO specific documentation. For information about labels and barcodes for tape
media, refer to the Barcode Technical Brief. These resources can be found on OTN:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/tape-storage-curr-187744.h
tml

Supported Tape Drives

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Tape Drive and Media Comparisons

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Supported Tape Drives
StorageTek T-Series (T9840C and D)
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StorageTek T-Series (T10000A, B, C, and D)
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Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium generations 3, 4, 5, and 6
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Most drives are capable of reading the data recorded by an earlier generation tape
drive from the same family. Therefore, the customer may use their existing cartridges,
if they are within their warranty period. Generally, there are four types of tape
cartridges: data, write once read many (WORM) or VolSafe secure media, cleaning,
and diagnostic.

T9840

The T9840 tape drives use a dual-reel cartridge design to enable fast access and reduce
latency by positioning the read/write head in the middle of the tape when the
cartridge is loaded. T9840C and T9840D drives are backward read compatible to the
first generation (T9840A and B) cartridges, but not backward write compatible.
Note: Tape drives must support the dynamic World Wide Name
feature for them to be placed online by the SL3000 library.
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