vs80 Tape Drive compatibility

[BR763208]

We have an internal DLT drive using DLT IV tapes in our Dell server and BackupExec software. We are looking at getting an external vs80 DLT drive as a backup for our internal tape drive - will the tapes created on our internal DLT drive be able to be read and restored from using the vs80 drive (again using Backup Exec to restore)?

I have seen a message saying that the vs80 will not read tapes formatted on another DLT drive.

[Tina Karasch]

I'm sorry - !!NO!! - unless the internal is a dlt40 drive - see extra info on these url's:

http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/get_doc.pl?SNI=hpsurestor24388&LC=information_storage&Tfile=lpg50139

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg50141&locale=en_US

[CA843380]

Hi,

The VS80 drive can only read tapes written on a DLT40 drive or a DLT1 drive. It cannot read tapes written on a DLT70 or DLT80 drive.

See the table at the bottom of this link for more details.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg50230&locale=en_US&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=63898&prodTypeId=12169

Cheers,

Dave Dewar

[CA843380]

LOL,

2 minutes difference, don't you just hate it when that happens :-)

Glad to see we gave consistent messages

Cheers,

Dave Dewar

[BR763208]

Thanks for the quick reply. The tape drive in the Dell is a Quantum DLT7000. I'll go and find out if that matches one of the tape drives metioned in the articles you pointed out.

Regards
Robert