Sun Microsystems SL500 User Manual

Tape Drives and Cartridges

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Chapter 1 SL500 Introduction 17

SDLT/DLT-S4 Tape Drives and Cartridges

Your robotics unit must be part number 314558705 or higher to read 

SDLT/DLT-S4 cartridge labels.

This section discusses media compatibility and cartridge labels. For all other tape drive 

and media information, such as specifications, refer to: 

■

The specific vender Web site

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http://www.sun.com/storagetek/index.jsp

 

For best results:

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Use Super DLT tape 1 cartridges in SDLT 320 tape drives

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Use Super DLT tape 2 cartridges in SDLT 600 tape drives

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Use DLT tape S4 cartridges in DLT-S4 tape drives

The following table lists the compatibility issues among the various SDLT cartridges 

and tape drives. Consider the information if you need to migrate your data from older 

types of cartridges to newer ones.

SDLT600 and DLT-S4 tape drives with appropriate firmware can accept 

cartridges with the WORM feature. 

The WORM (write once read many times) feature prevents the user from altering or 

erasing information from the tape. For more information, go to the Quantum Web site 

and do a search on DLTICE

TM

.

The WORM feature cartridge must be:

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unformatted native

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blank native

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native with one filemark and an EOD

See 

 for more specific information about 

cartridges.

TABLE 1-9 SDLT/DLT-S4 Media/Tape Drive Compatibility

SDLT 1 media

Read and write

Read only

Read only

SDLT 2 media

No action

Read and write

Read only

DLTIV media

Read only

No action

No action

DLT tape S4

No action

No action

Read and write

 

Note: DLT-S4 drives are supported with library firmware 1126 and later.