The generation of LTO tapes you can use with your Ark Tape Library depend on the LTO Drive generation you have installed. You may only have one generation of drive installed in any given Ark Tape library.
LTO drive generations 1-7 are able to read tapes from two generations prior and are able to write to tapes from the prior generation. For example, an LTO-6 drive can read and write to LTO-6 and LTO-5 tapes as well as read from LTO-4 tapes.
LTO-8 drives can read and write to LTO-7 and LTO-8 media, including LTO-7 Type M.
LTO-9 drives can read and write to LTO-8 and LTO-9 media only.
LTO-10 drives can only read and write to LTO-10 media.
Full details can be at lto.org.
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