On 24 Feb 2006 at 15:33, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Dan Langille wrote: > > > Here's an interesting situation. DLT media is upwards compatible. > > So is DAT. I'm sure it applies to other media as well. > > > > I'll use DLT as an example. You have a DLT 7000 drive and a DLT 4000 > > drive. You have two media types: DLT70 and DLT40. > > > > You can put a DLT40 tape into either drive. > > > > A DLT70 tape can only go into the DLT 7000 drive. > > > > How can you specify that media type DLT40 can go into either drive? > > > > I'm guessing: create two Storage resources, with different Media > > Types, but both refer to the same device. > > I thought about this some time ago and the only real conclusion I came to > was that it was easiest to only use higher capacity drives.
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