LTO technology is backwards compatible two generations from 1 to 7 and
one gen on LTO-8, so an LTO-8 drive should be able to read and write
LTO-7. https://www.lto.org/technology/lto-generation-8/
I'm not sure why you would like to label an LTO-7 as LTO-8 tape (will
most likely cause trouble) but you can do so by using an LTO-8 barcode
tag (last element in the barcode tag is used to define the LTO
generation, so L8 whould do the trick) I create the ones I use here:
https://tapelabel.de/
Regards,
Iñaki.
On 03/26/2018 10:01 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
On 03/26/2018 02:29 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
The only way to label a tape volume in Bacula is to use a label command. It
does not matter what a native medium capacity is.
No idea how LTOs work, AITs would throw a "premature EOT" when you used
e.g. AIT-2 tape in AIT-3 drive. That wasn't a problem when reading, but
writing to an old-version tape could potentially mess up your entire volume.
That's when it does matter what the native medium capacity is.
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