topic UDO Compatibility in Optical Jukeboxes and Drives

UDO Compatibility

Lumar Regalado — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:42:19 GMT

Good morning everybody.
I'm new in Jukebox technology.
We're buying a 700ux 2drive jukebox with UDO drives. I'm concerned about compatibility with my previous MO disks. Can I read a MO disk in a UDO drive?
Thanks for your reponses.

Re: UDO Compatibility

Jean-Luc Oudart — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:01:49 GMT

Hi,

You can habe both technology within same Jukebox, but the drives will be different as this is red laser (MO) vs blue laser technology (UDO).

cf. this link :
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/udojukeboxes/qa.html

Regards,
Jean-Luc

Re: UDO Compatibility

Marino Meloni_1 — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:38:02 GMT

have a look at this doc

Re: UDO Compatibility

Lumar Regalado — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:14:46 GMT

Thanks, by my question actually is:
If I have a MO disk, Can I put it in a UDO drive and it can be read?
Thanks.

Re: UDO Compatibility

Jean-Luc Oudart — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:05:45 GMT

Lumar,

if you read the post and check the link you have the answer :
according to documentation, a UDO drice cannot read/write a MO drive

"Since UDO is based on blue laser technology and MO was based on red laser, inherently the two are not compatible"

Regards,
Jean-Luc

Re: UDO Compatibility

Lumar Regalado — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:49:10 GMT

Thanks Jean.
That's answer my question.
Best Regards.

Re: UDO Compatibility

Marino Meloni_1 — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:26:19 GMT

I think you may have the option of mixed drive, the media have the same shape, so probably you may be able to add a old stile MO drive and use it for you old drives in the new library

Re: UDO Compatibility

Jean-Luc Oudart — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:27:28 GMT

Hi Lumar,

I think you should assign points and there should be a rabbit here as the solution has been found.

Regards,
Jean-Luc