Exabyte EXB-8505 8mm manual May

Glossary

EXB-8505The EXB-8505 8mm Cartridge Tape Subsystem. The EXB-8505 is a half-high 8mm cartridge tape subsystem that can store 10 gigabytes of data on a single EXATAPE 112m 8mm data cartridge, assuming an average 2:1 compression ratio.

EXB-8505XLThe EXB-8505XL 8mm Cartridge Tape Subsystem. The EXB-8505XL is a half-high 8mm cartridge tape subsystem that can store 14 gigabytes of data on a single EXATAPE 160m XL 8mm data cartridge, assuming an average 2:1 compression ratio.

FFahrenheit.

FCC Federal Communications Commission.

FEPROM Flash erasable programmable read only memory.

GByte Gigabyte.

hHexadecimal (base 16) numbering system.

host The computer system that acts as the initiator of an operation.

Hz Hertz.

ID Identification.

IDRC Improved Data Recording Capability. The compression algorithm used by the EXB-8205, EXB-8205XL, EXB-8505, and EXB-8505XL (licensed from IBM).

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission.

initiator A host computer system that requests an operation to be performed by the target.

ISO International Standards Organization.

KByte Kilobyte.

LBOT Logical beginning of tape.

LEOT Logical end of tape.

LUN Logical unit number.

MByte Megabyte.

MLCH Machine level control history.

May 1994	EXB-8205 and EXB-8505	G-3
	(Standard and XL)