Tape Drives

Tape - 3480/90E

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

Fujitsu

M2488E

0.2/2.4

Y

M

N

M

M

Y

Y

Y

Fujitsu

M2488

2.4

Y

M

N

M

M

Y

Y

Y

Manufacturer

Fujitsu

Fujitsu

Part number

M2488E

M2488

Compatibility

3480/3490

3480/3490

Capacity (Gb)

0.2/2.4

2.4

Media rate (Mb/s)

0.75/3

3

SCSI rate (Mb/s)

10

10

Cache (kb)

2048

2048

Number of Tracks

18/36

36

Compression

Yes

Yes

Narrow/single

YES

YES

Wide/single

YES

YES

Narrow/diff

YES

YES

Wide/diff

YES

YES

SCA-2

N/A

N/A

Wide/ultra/single

N/A

N/A

Wide/ultra/diff

N/A

N/A

Narrow/LVD

N/A

N/A

Wide/LVD

N/A

N/A

Ultra SCA-2

N/A

N/A

Form factor

Table/Rack

Table/Rack

Note:Both variants can have a 10 cartridge front or flush mount autoloader.
M2488E is 18 and 36 track read and write.
M2488 is 36 track read and write and 18 track read only.
MW Consultancy can supply media and cleaning tapes for the above tape drives.