On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:26:32PM -0800, Stringer, Douglas wrote:
Don't let the LTO manufactures hear you say that. With different driver support, media, ISV certification requirements and specifications that are anything but similar to DLT, the only common item these formats share is that they are 'linear' tape formats.
NetApp will be supporting LTO in the late summer/early fall timeframe.
Thanks for the brief smackdown. ;)
It just seems that everything I've read had identical product info between the DLT and LTO equipment with exception of the drive itself. It appeared as though the differences were transparent, all diffs internal. (ie: LTO and DLT devices performed identically under FreeBSD's ch driver)
I'm now assuming I'm 100% wrong here. <sob>
- ryan