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?
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.
LTO-5 cartridges rely on LTFS partitions that generation-8 hardware cannot mount.