Tape Drives

Tape - 3590

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

M8100A2

10.0

Y

M

N

M

M

Y

Y

Y

Manufacturer

Fujitsu

Part number

M8100A2

Compatibility

3590

Capacity (Gb)

10.0

Media rate (Mb/s)

13.5

SCSI rate (Mb/s)

40

Cache (kb)

16384

Number of Tracks

128

Compression

No

Narrow/single

N/A

Wide/single

YES

Narrow/diff

N/A

Wide/diff

YES

SCA-2

N/A

Wide/ultra/single

YES

Wide/ultra/diff

YES

Narrow/LVD

N/A

Wide/LVD

N/A

Ultra SCA-2

N/A

Form factor

Table/Rack

Note:Unit can have a 10 cartridge front or flush mount autoloader.
Can SCSI emulate the IBM 3590.
MW Consultancy can supply media and cleaning tapes for the above tape drives.