>> Can I plug an Ultra 160 tape drive into an Ultra 320 cable and will it
>> work?
>>
>> I was under the impression they were backwards compatible and the
>> connectots the same, so assume it will but don't know enough about the
>> standards to say with certainty.
>>
>> We have a Ultra 320 rack enclosure with an LT0 tape drive in (which is of
>> course an Ultra 320 device), but it has a spare bay and port and I wanted
>> to try and utilise it to run an old AIT drive we have (which is an Ultra
>> 160 device).
>>
>> This is all HP/Compaq kit by the way if that matters.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-320
>
> "Ultra-2, ultra-160 and ultra-320 devices may be freely mixed on the
> parallel LVD bus with no compromise in performance, as the host
> adapter
> will negotiate the operating speed and bus management requirements for
> each
> device. You can attach Single-ended and LVDS devices to the same bus,
> but
> all devices will run at the slower single-ended speed."
>
> HTH,
> Paul

Thank you