[Info-vax] DLT4000 external drives plus media.

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

mathog <dmathog at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 4:17?pm, Rob Brown <mylastn... at gmcl.com> wrote:
>> Anybody know how far backward compatible the DLT4000 is? ?Can it read
>> TK50? ?TK70? ?The datasheet I found just said "all DLTtape formats",
>> which probably means "no", but I thought it was worth asking.
 
> Well, the selector lights are marked 2.6,  6.0, 10.0,  20.0, and
> compress.  The "tape reference" card says it will read/write in all of
> those modes.  Not sure which, if any, are TK50 or TK70.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape

The 2.6, 6.0, and 10.0 are three different forms of DLT-III,
the 20.0 is DLT-IV.   The DLT-IIIXL tapes are 1.5 times as long,
so will hold 1.5 times the data.  (And usually somewhat cheaper
than DLT-IV tapes.)

-- glen