Tape Drives

Tape - 8mm

The following applies in the table below:

Capacity:Typical tape capacity in Gbytes (2:1 compression)
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

Exabyte

Eliant 820

14

Y

M

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Exabyte

Mammoth-LT

28

Y

M

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Exabyte

Mammoth

40

Y

M

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Exabyte

Mammoth-2

120

Y

M

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Manufacturer

Exabyte

Exabyte

Exabyte

Exabyte

Part number

Eliant 820

Mammoth-LT

Mammoth

Mammoth-2

Compatibility

8200/8500

Mammoth/820/8200/8500

Mammoth/8200/8500

Mammoth/8200/8500

Capacity (Gb)

14

28

40

120

Media rate (Mb/s)

1

2

3

12

SCSI rate (Mb/s)

10

20

20

20

Cache (kb)

2048

4096

4096

32768

Number of Tracks

Helical

Helical

Helical

Helical

Compression

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Narrow/single

YES

YES

YES

N/A

Wide/single

N/A

YES

YES

YES

Narrow/diff

YES

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/diff

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

SCA-2

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/ultra/single

N/A

YES

YES

YES

Wide/ultra/diff

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Narrow/LVD

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/LVD

N/A

N/A

N/A

YES

Ultra SCA-2

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Form factor

5.25" HH

5.25" HH

5.25" HH

5.25" HH

Note:The Mammoth-2 is scheduled to be available by the end of the year.
We have available Exabyte libraries for all of the above drives.
MW Consultancy can supply media and cleaning tapes for the above tape drives.