Lto Tape Drives And Cartridges; Table 1-8 Lto Media/Tape Drive Compatibility - Sun Microsystems StorageTek SL500 User Manual

Tape Drives and Cartridges

LTO Tape Drives and Cartridges

Note – LTO technology was developed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Seagate. LTO is
an "open format' technology, which means that users have multiple sources of product
and media.
This section discusses media compatibility and cartridge labels. For all other tape drive
and media information, such as specifications, refer to:
The specific vender Web site
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http://www.sun.com/storagetek/index.jsp
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For best results, match the cartridges with the specific drive type (for example, use
LTO 2 cartridges in Gen 2 drives):
The following table lists the compatibility issues among the various LTO cartridges and
tape drives. Although SL500 does not support Gen 1 drives, the column is listed for you
to consider if you need to migrate your data from older types of cartridges to newer
ones.

TABLE 1-8 LTO Media/Tape Drive Compatibility

Media Label
LTO 1 L1
LTO 2 L2
LTO 3 L3
LTO 4 L4
WORM LT
(400 GB)
WORM LU
(800 GB)
Note: When available. LTO 4 drives are supported with library firmware 1126 and later.
Note – LTO 3 drives can accept 400 GB WORM (Write Once Read Many) cartridges.
LTO 4 drives can also accept these plus the 800 GB WORM cartridges.
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Gen 1 Drive Gen 2 Drive
Read and write Read and write
Non applicable Read and write
Non applicable Non applicable
Non applicable Non applicable
Non applicable Non applicable
Non applicable Non applicable
Gen 3 Drive Gen 4* Drive
Read only Non
applicable
Read and Read only
write
Read and Read and
write write
Non Read and
applicable write
Read and Read and
write write
Non Read and
applicable write
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