StorageWorks 8505 8mm Cartridge Tape Drive

Transfer rate (sustained): 500 KBytes/sec. (native)

1 MBytes/sec. (compressed) 1

Power on diagnostics: approximately 30 seconds

Buffer size: 1 MByte

Max. search speed: 7.5 MBytes/sec. (native): a search speed increase of up to 5x may be realized1

Reliability

Non-recoverable error rate: Less than one in 1017 bits read

MTBF: 80,000 hours

MTTR: < 30 minutes

Tape Motion

Tape speed: 0.436 ips

Effective head-to-tape speed: 150 ips

Max. rewind speed: 75 times nominal

Media

8mm data cartridge (Digital part number TKZ8x) ANSI/ISO/IEC 11319-1992 and ECMA-145

8mm wide magnetic tape cartridge for information exchange

Cleaning Cartridge

Exabyte-approved 8mm cleaning cartridge

SCSI Command Set

Test Unit Ready

Rewind

Request Sense

Read Block Limits

Read

Write

Write Filemarks

Inquiry

Space

Recover Buffered Data

Mode Select

Reserve Unit

Release Unit

Erase

A–2

Order Number: EK–STWCT–UG. E01