Drive inventory

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 06:37:28 2002

> >There are currently 5 DAT formats (DDS, DDS-1, DDS-2, DDS-3,
> and DDS-4)
> >and all are backward compatible.
>
> But, can a drive from manufacturer "A" read a DDS-1 tape written on
> manufacturer "B's" drive? It's been my understanding that sometimes even
> different model drives from the same manufacturer can't read the same tape.

You're supposed to be OK if you didn't used compression,
or also OK if you used software compression (assuming you
can find a program on the target platform that understands
the compression).

It's when you use hardware compression that you may be screwed.

-dq
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 06:37:28 GMT