CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 Practice Question
During a disaster-recovery exercise, a systems administrator loads the organization's most recent full backup-stored on an LTO-5 cartridge-into the only tape drive available at the alternate site, an LTO-8 model. The backup software immediately reports that the media is incompatible and the restore cannot proceed. Which characteristic of tape technology MOST likely explains the failure?
LTO-5 cartridges rely on LTFS partitions that generation-8 hardware cannot mount.
The cartridge was written in WORM mode, and generation-8 drives refuse to load read-only media.
The LTO-8 drive is only backward-compatible with media from the immediately preceding generation, so it cannot read an LTO-5 cartridge.
Early LTO media uses a different magnetic coating that can damage newer drive heads, so the drive blocks it for safety reasons.