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Table 1-3. Type IV, VS1, and SDLT1 Media Read/Write Compatibility
Media Types
New Unformatted Type IV
Type IV written by DLT4000 Yes
Type IV written by DLT7000 No*
Type IV written by DLT8000 No*
Type IV written by DLT1
Type IV written by VS80
VS1 written by VS160
SDLT1 written by SDLT220 No
SDLT1 written by SDLT320 No
NOTE:
NOTE:
Type IV media written by VS or DLT1 drives.
NOTE:
also read Type IV media written by DLT4000, DLT7000, DLT8000, VS80, and DLT1 drives.
1
Orange alert/media light comes on.
2
The orange alert/media light illuminates and the tape is automatically ejected. The alert/media light will go off if readable
media is inserted into the drive or power is cycled on the drive.
3
No lights will 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 would indicate no data on tape.
* Under default settings the DLT 7000 and DLT8000 drives write to tape in their default density. 70 GB 2:1 compressed and 80
GB 2:1 compressed respectively. Tapes written by these devices may be read by DLT4000, DLT1, and VS80 if density 20.0 is
selected on the front panel of the drive prior to formatting the tape media with a DLT7000 or DLT8000 drive. This will be data
destructive.
** 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 will allow an SDLT320 drive to write in an SDLT220 format. The utility is available for both Microsoft
Linux platforms.
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Read by
Read by
DLT4000
DLT7000
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No*
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
In Table 1-3, the media types formatted in bold can read and write Type IV media only.
In Table 1-3, the media type formatted in italics can read and write VS1 media. It can also read
In Table 1-3, the media types formatted in underlines can read and write SDLT media. They can
Read by
Read by
Read by
DLT8000
DLT1
VS80
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
2
Yes
No
*
No
2
Yes
No
*
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
3
No
No
No
3
No
No
No
Read by
Read by
VS160
SDLT220
2
6
No
No
No2
Yes1
2
2
1
*
No
Yes
2
2
1
*
No
Yes
1
1
Yes
Yes
1
1
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
3
2
No
Yes
3
2
4
No
No
**
®
Read by
SDLT320
6
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
5
Yes
Yes
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