Related Topics
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The M8 cartridge is an LTO7 cartridge with increased storage capacity.
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Support for Non-Standard Label Formats
The SL150 can accommodate non-standard LTO labels to support proprietary
labeling schemes.
Tape Cartridge Types
There are three cartridge types: data, cleaning, and diagnostic.
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Data tapes — used to store customer data. The label is six-character volume ID
followed by a two character media ID. Such as ABC123L8, where ABC123 is the
volume ID and L8 is the media ID for an LTO-8 cartridge.
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Cleaning tapes — used to clean tape drives. The label is a six-character volume
ID with
CLNUnn
for plus the cleaning-specific media ID, where
CLNU
is the cleaning
tape identifier and
nn
is a sequence of numbers (for example,
CLNU01CU
would be
a universal LTO cleaning tape).
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Diagnostic tapes — used for diagnosing tape drive issues. The label is a six-
character volume ID with
DG
[space]
nnn
plus the media ID, where
DG
[space] is
the diagnostic tape identifier, and
nnn
is a sequence of numbers (for example,
DG 001L7
would be an LTO7 diagnostic tape label).
Related Topics
•
Standard LTO data cartridge labels have a unique, customer-assigned, six-
character volume ID, followed by a two-character media ID field.
M8 Cartridge Type
The M8 cartridge is an LTO7 cartridge with increased storage capacity.
An M8 cartridge is an LTO7 cartridge initialized to a 9TB capacity by an LTO8 drive
(instead of the standard 6TB capacity of a standard LTO7 cartridge). For an LTO8
drive to initialize an LTO7 cartridge to M8, the cartridge must be new (unused) and
contain an M8 label. Only LTO8 drives can read and write M8 cartridges.
The library must be at code 3.50 or above to support the M8 cartridge type.
Label Format Types
The label format determines how the tape library passes the label values to the host
application. Oracle recommends using the default setting.
No type checking
Passes all characters in the label without modification and without checking the
media domain and type. Use this option if your labels do not identify the media type:
M123456789AB
does not, for example, contain a media descriptor, such as
L5
.
Prepend last two characters
Passes all the characters after moving the last two characters in the label to the front:
KL1020L5
is translated to
L5KL1020
.
Chapter 6
Media Labels
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