Thanks Wanda
That will work fine.
The LTO standard says that any drive can read *and *write one generation
back, can read 2 generations back.
So LTO4 drives can both read and write LTO3 cartridges. (You still get the
speed and capacity of LTO3 on those cartridges.)
Your LTO4 drives can read LTO2 cartridges,
I do not mean different drives, but different cartridges of different LTO
generations. e.g a library has two LTO4 drives and mix of LTO4 and LTO3
cartridges.
Yes, and remember to put the smaller drives at the head of the line in
the library. That way the smaller tapes can move up to the smaller
drives and the larger ones will stay at the bottom. I've noted over
time that TSM will use the drives in order from 01 down, and if you have
the larger ones at
There's a link for that:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsmaix
n.doc/anragd55108.htm#mixdevtype
In fact, there are a few links - another:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246502.pdf (section 5.11 - Mixed
Media Libraries).
Briefly, yes, you can do
