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тАО03-06-2019 05:44 AM
тАО03-06-2019 05:44 AM
Can there be problems moving to a new tape drive
An older IT professional once told me that, back in his early days, you could run into problems transitioning to a new tape drive, even if the new drive was the same make and model as before, due to slight variances in alignment and how they wrote to tape. Your tapes could become unreadable with the new device. I imagine equipment has improved greatly since then, but can anyone tell me if modern HPE drives can run into this problem? I have a drive that reads LTO-6 Ultrium tapes.
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тАО03-06-2019 05:46 AM
тАО03-06-2019 05:46 AM
Re: Can there be problems moving to a new tape drive
Just to clarify, I am only concerned with a potential problems transitioning to a new device that is the same model as before.
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тАО03-06-2019 11:53 AM
тАО03-06-2019 11:53 AM
Re: Can there be problems moving to a new tape drive
The drive to drive interop issues have largely been resolved. LTO uses servo tracks written on the tape and dynamic tracking in the drive so that the head/track alignment is constantly monitored and maintained. When the track alignment relied entirely on the mechanical head/tape alignment of the writing drive there were a lot more problems like that. The LTO Consortium has interop requirements for logo certification.
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