On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Media type is completely arbitrary. If you want the new drive to be able > to share media with the old drive, you should use the same media type. > If not, you should have them be different. It would be best if you could > make a supported media type list, to allow for backward compatible > drives, but that's not possible at present.
This is something I raised at least 2-3 years ago. There's been no apparent interest in solving the issue and likely won't be until one of the developers encounters the problem. Supported media lists would have to cover r/w and ro support: LTO drives are r/w compatible with the previous generation, but read only with the one before that. ie: LTO4 can R/W LTO3 tapes, but only read LTO2 and can't read LTO1 at all. (As far as I can tell these are _minimum_ specs for LTO. It's perfectly possible to exceed them and produce a LTO4 drive which can write LTO2 and read LTO1, but as far as I know no manufacturer has done that yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
