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Drives in BLUE read and write Type IV media only. See chart for format limitations.

Drives in GREEN read and write SDLT media. They can also read Type IV media.

Drives in RED read and write VS1 media. They can also read Type IV media written

by VS or DLT1 drives.

1 - Orange alert/media light comes on.

2 - The orange alert/media light illuminates and the tape automatically ejects. The alert/media light

goes off if readable media is inserted into the drive or power is cycled on the drive.

3 - No lights come on. The drive automatically ejects the tape

4 - No lights come on. Backup software shows bad media.

5 - Orange (220) LED blinks indicating that a 220-formatted tape is in the drive.

6 - No lights blink. The tape does not eject. There is no indicator on the SDLT that indicates no data

on tape.

Under default settings the DLT7000 and DLT8000 write to tape in their default density; 70GB 2:1

compressed and 80GB 2:1 compressed respectively. Tapes written by DLT7000/8000 devices will be

read-only in DLT4000, DLT1, and VS80 if density 20.0 is selected on the front panel of the drive prior

to writing to the tape media.

Density selection is not mechanically available on the front panel of SDLT drives. However, for

backward compatibility reasons, an SDLT320 Density Select Utility is available on Quantum's website

in the SDLT320 download area. This software utility allows an SDLT320 drive to write in an SDLT220

format. The utility is available for both Windows® and Linux

Dell DLT, VS and SDLT Media Handbook

Table 3 Type IV, VS1, and SDLT1 Media Read/Write Compatibility

platforms.

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