Sdlt/Dlt-S4 Tape Drives And Cartridges; Table 1-9 Sdlt/Dlt-S4 Media/Tape Drive Compatibility - Sun Microsystems StorageTek SL500 User Manual

SDLT/DLT-S4 Tape Drives and Cartridges

Note – Your robotics unit must be part number 314558705 or higher to read
SDLT/DLT-S4 cartridge labels.
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:
Use Super DLT tape 1 cartridges in SDLT 320 tape drives
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Use Super DLT tape 2 cartridges in SDLT 600 tape drives
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Use DLT tape S4 cartridges in DLT-S4 tape drives
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The following table lists the compatibility issues among the various SDLT cartridges
and tape drives. Consider the information if you need to migrate your data from older
types of cartridges to newer ones.

TABLE 1-9 SDLT/DLT-S4 Media/Tape Drive Compatibility

Media
SDLT 1 media
SDLT 2 media
DLTIV media
DLT tape S4
Note: DLT-S4 drives are supported with library firmware 1126 and later.
Note – SDLT600 and DLT-S4 tape drives with appropriate firmware can accept
cartridges with the WORM feature.
The WORM (write once read many times) feature prevents the user from altering or
erasing information from the tape. For more information, go to the Quantum Web site
and do a search on DLTICE
Note – The WORM feature cartridge must be:
unformatted native
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blank native
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native with one filemark and an EOD
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See "Cartridge Information" on page 347
cartridges.
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SDLT 320 Drive
Read and write
No action
Read only
No action
TM
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SDLT 600 Drive DLT-S4* Drive
Read only Read only
Read and write Read only
No action No action
No action Read and write
for more specific information about
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