[ale] DLT drive / media compatibility

[Greg Freemyer]

All,

I've been using LTO drives for the last 5+ years.

I now need to understand DLT drive / media compatibility and I'm totally lost.

Does anyone know a website that shows a simple matrix of all the media
and drive types with a check box if it is compatible?

Seems like a simple question, but I've looked at the Wikipedia entry
and I know less now than when I started.  (Or maybe it is truer to say
my level of ingnorance was increased by reading the wikipedia entry.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape#Drives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape#Media

Apparently there are 10 kinds of media and 19 kinds of drives and
there are branches in the tree.

We want to be able to read as many different kinds of DLT as we can
cost effectively.

Thanks
Greg
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