Re: mixing tapes in a 3575 library

2001-04-20 Thread David Longo
I have a 3575-L32 with 6 C-XL tape drives. If you have the C-XL drives then you can use the C-XL tapes (Red tab) intermixed with Blue and Green tabs. We have both Red & Blue with no problem. The EST. Capacity has no effect on how much data is placed on tape. Tape always writes till it reac

mixing tapes in a 3575 library

2001-04-20 Thread Gisbert Schneider
Hi all, we have a 3575 library where only a few scratchtapes are left. Checking out tapes from a longtime archive or moving clients to an other server is not possible. The library is completely filled with 5 GB Magstar B-Format tapes. To gain more space i now want to checkout scratchtapes and rep