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Exabyte EXB-8205 manual Welcome

Models: EXB-8205

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Welcome

Welcome

Thank you for selecting the Exabyte® EXB-8205, EXB-8205XL, EXB-8505, or EXB-8505XL8mm Cartridge Tape Subsystem (tape drive). These tape drives are high-capacity, high-performance, and highly reliable storage devices for PC, workstation, and local area network (LAN) applications.

The “eXtended-Length” (XL) configurations of the tape drives (EXB-8205XL and EXB-8505XL) provide additional capacity by supporting the extended-length EXATAPE™ 160m XL 8mm Data Cartridge. Information about the 160m XL data cartridge is provided on page 24.

May 1994

EXB-8205 and EXB-8505 (Standard and XL)

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Exabyte EXB-8205 manual Welcome

Contents

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