Tape Media ID

Standard LTO data cartridge labels have a unique, customer-assigned, six-character volume ID, followed by a two-character media ID field.

The valid media ID characters are:

• L5 = LTO Generation 5
• L6 = LTO Generation 6
• L7 = LTO Generation 7
• L8 = LTO Generation 8
• L9 = LTO Generation 9

  Note:

  See Library Support of LTO9 Tape Calibration.
• M8 = LTO Generation 7 cartridge initialized to 9TB capacity (only compatible with LTO8 drives)
• LV = LTO Generation 5 WORM
• LW = LTO Generation 6 WORM
• LX = LTO Generation 7 WORM
• LY = LTO Generation 8 WORM
• LZ = LTO Generation 9 WORM
• CU = LTO Universal cleaning