docs: tape: clarify LTO-4/5 support

some features we need (e.g. READ POSITION long form) are only officially
available with LTO-5, but work on many LTO-4 drives, so move LTO-4 to
'best-effort' support.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>

diff --git a/docs/tape-backup.rst b/docs/tape-backup.rst
index 10a5ef5df1225e6c0103b090a26282bdac35034e..1812acc87aad4d3f212476df2bf4f87354ae22c8 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/tape-backup.rst
+++ b/docs/tape-backup.rst
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ tape compression feature has no advantage.
 Supported Hardware
 ------------------
 
-Proxmox Backup Server supports `Linear Tape-Open`_ generation 4 (LTO-4)
-or later.
+Proxmox Backup Server supports `Linear Tape-Open`_ generation 5 (LTO-5)
+or later and has best-effort support for generation 4 (LTO-4). While
+many LTO-4 systems are known to work, some might need firmware updates or
+do not implement necessary features to work with Proxmox Backup Server.
 
 Tape changing is carried out using the SCSI Medium Changer protocol,
 so all modern tape libraries should work.