Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-06 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: DLT Drive Upgrade At 02:35 PM 11/1/2000 -0500, Palmadesso Jack wrote: >This library is also single-ended not differential. I am not a SCSI expert >so I am wondering why you would not just leave the libr

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-02 Thread Marita Gonsalves
ver. 3.7.3.6 on NT 4.0 Thanks, Marita Gonsalves -Original Message- From: Paul Zarnowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DLT Drive Upgrade At 12:47 PM 11/1/2000 -0800, France, Don G (Pace) wrote:

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 12:47 PM 11/1/2000 -0800, France, Don G (Pace) wrote: >I suggest you check the vendor spec. but also run a test to confirm your >understanding... and, also, check the spec. on your old media to see if the >new density is supported. DLT4000, 7000, and 8000 all use CompactTapeIV tape media.

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
, 2000 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:DLT Drive Upgrade One of my libraries is getting close to maxing out its storage. Its a Breece Hill Q47 with 3 DLT4000 drives. I'd like to replace the drives with 4 DLT8000 drives. So far I've been hearing it should all be backwa

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Paul Zarnowski
ear about, but perhaps someone else on the list could comment on, is whether you need to re-label tapes to get them written in the higher density, or if this happens automatically after a tape is reclaimed. >Jack > >-Original Message- >From: Paul Zarnowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Palmadesso Jack
create any new device classes. I could just use the existing class and let the drives do the translations from one format to the next. Am I being too simple? Jack -Original Message- From: Paul Zarnowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Jack, We also have a Breece Hill Q47 with 3 DLT4000 drives. It is no longer our primary robot, but it used to be. It is true that a DLT7000 or DLT8000 drive should be able to read tapes written by a DLT4000 drive. I *think* it is true that ADSM will read these tapes also, but I do not have f

DLT Drive Upgrade

2000-11-01 Thread Palmadesso Jack
One of my libraries is getting close to maxing out its storage. Its a Breece Hill Q47 with 3 DLT4000 drives. I'd like to replace the drives with 4 DLT8000 drives. So far I've been hearing it should all be backward compatible but mostly thats just from the sales people. Some of the people arou