Tape Drives

Tape - 9trk

The following applies in the table below:

Capacity:Typical tape capacity in Gbytes
Operating System Certified:Y - Direct integration, no operating system database changes
N - Will not work or needs device driver
M - Will work but requires operating system database changes
A - Will work but uses unorthadox methods for integration.

Manufacturer

Part Number

Capacity

OpenVMS

OSF/1

NT

SunOS

Solaris

Irix

AIX

HPUX

M4

9914

0.2

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Manufacturer

M4

Part number

9914

Compatibility

800/1600/3200/6250 BPI

Capacity (Gb)

0.2

Media rate (Mb/s)

0.75

SCSI rate (Mb/s)

10

Cache (kb)

512/2048

Number of Tracks

9

Compression

No

Narrow/single

YES

Wide/single

N/A

Narrow/diff

YES

Wide/diff

N/A

SCA-2

N/A

Wide/ultra/single

N/A

Wide/ultra/diff

N/A

Narrow/LVD

N/A

Wide/LVD

N/A

Ultra SCA-2

N/A

Form factor

Table/Rack

Note:The 9914 can have very large record sizes as in seismic applications. MW Consultancy can supply media for the above tape drive.