Tape Drives

Tape - DLT

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

Tandberg

4000

40

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Tandberg

7000

70

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Tandberg

8000

80

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Manufacturer

Tandberg

Tandberg

Tandberg

Part number

4000

7000

8000

Compatibility

2000/4000

2000/4000/7000

2000/4000/7000/8000

Capacity (Gb)

40

70

80

Media rate (Mb/s)

3.0

5.0

12.0

SCSI rate (Mb/s)

10

10

20

Cache (kb)

512

512

8192

Number of Tracks

128

128

208

Compression

Yes

Yes

Yes

Narrow/single

YES

N/A

N/A

Wide/single

N/A

YES

YES

Narrow/diff

YES

N/A

N/A

Wide/diff

N/A

YES

YES

SCA-2

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/ultra/single

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/ultra/diff

N/A

YES

YES

Narrow/LVD

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/LVD

N/A

N/A

YES

Ultra SCA-2

N/A

N/A

N/A

Form factor

5.25" FH

5.25" FH

5.25" FH

Note:The DLT8000 will be generally available in two months.
We have available ATL libraries using Veritas software for all of the above drives.
MW Consultancy can supply media and cleaning tapes for the above tape drives.