I guess the doc I was questioning was the quote: "You cannot mix media formats in a storage pool. This includes LTO1 and LTO2 formats."
Bill is doing this (using LTO1 AND LTO2 formats in a storage pool.) So if it is not wrong, I found it very confusing to figure out what that means! Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Mixed media (LTO1 and LTO2) with LTO2 Drives - small correction On Sep 1, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Rushforth, Tim wrote: > Thanks Bill. Sounds like the documentation is wrong. > The doc seems correct to me. A devclass is associated with a single library definition, and drives are defined to that library. The devclass has a single Format value specification, and can only be specific to a drive model if all drives are of that model. If they are of mixed, compatible generations of the same technology, then the Format value has to be more general (DRIVE). As Bill illustrated, if you want model-specific Format values, then you need separate devclass definitions. Observe the note in the Reference manual: "Note: The server supports the mixing of LTO Ultrium Generation 1 drives and media with LTO Ultrium Generation 2 drives and media because the LTO Ultrium Generation 2 drives can read and write to Generation 1 media." Richard Sims
