Tapes formatted or used in DLT 80 drive are unreadable in HP VS80 drive

[CA1167984]

HI,
I am using HP DLT IV (C5141F) Tapes for my backups, using DLT 40/80 GB HP Drive and Arceserve 6(NT 4) for Backup.
I have purchased a DLt VS80 drive to replaces the the defective drive.
in the compatibility matrix , I see that the two drives use the same tape ( hp dlt IV)
but My new drive (dlt VS80) can't read the tape already used or formatted with other DLt 80 drives...the light lit and the tape is automaticly rejected.
the new drive (VS80) accept only new DLT VI tapes never used before.

can I re-use the old tape? and How?

many thanks,

[meloni]

The VS80, even if it use DLTVI cartridge, is not able to read these if they have been formatted within a DLT40/80 due to the differents format of the magnetic printfoot on the tape.
That is why you can use brand new tapes only.
There is no way to read then in this new drive.
The only way to re-use (but loosing data) these old cartridges, is to degauss them, this will erase all the magnectic informations written on it. (this can be aconplished by some third party company available througt internet)

You will found on the following link some common answers related to this:

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/dltvs4080/qa.html

[CA1167984]

thank you for your replay,