The tapes will be readable, however they will be written in DLT 4000 format,
you need to wait till the tape is expired and then relabel it or erase it
and let NBU relabel it.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Smiles [mailto:msmiles AT lucent DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:47 AM
To: Paul Windsor
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DLT 4000 to DLT 7000 conversion


Paul,
In answer to question 3
In your /kernel/drv/st.conf, you need the following selected;

     "QUANTUM DLT7000",      "Quantum DLT7000", "DLT7k-data",
and
     DLT7k-data =    1,0x38,0,0x1D639,4,0x82,0x83,0x84,0x85,2;
Regards,
Mark

Paul Windsor wrote:

> We are using NetBackup 3.2 on a SUN4000 (Solaris 2.6) and using two STK
> 9710 silos with 10 DLT 4000 each. Our plan is to upgrade the tape drives
> to DLT 7000s. The questions are:
>
>   1. Will NetBackup be able to read existing backup tapes ( the DLT IV
>       carts are used )
>
>   2. After the upgrade will the tapes be written in DLT7000 mode or
> must      the tapes be blank labeled
>
>   3. I have seen several different DLT7000 definitions for the st.conf
>       file .... what is correct
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Paul
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