Removable Storage Media Devices 355
Removable Storage Media Devices
Prerequisites
The minimum OS/400 release required is V4R2 with PTFs as stated in Informational APAR
II11671.
Features
SCSI cable should be specified with any order to attach the tape drive to its controller card.
For the SCSI cable, only feature #9224 or #5224 (2.4 m) is available. The maximum cable
length is 3 m.
A media feature must also be ordered, either #9501 consisting of one 4 GB cartridge, one
cleaning cartridge, and one test cartridge for the 7207 Model 122, or #7501, which includes
an additional four 4 GB cartridges over the #9501 package.
Additional cartridges (#2503) and cleaning cartridges (#2504) can be ordered by MES.
The 7207 Model 122 is available in black only.
IBM 7208 External 8mm Tape Drive Model 342
The 7208 Model 342 is a stand-alone SCSI 8mm streaming tape drive with a
capacity of a 20 GB per cartridge. It supports the 170-meter advanced
metal-evaporated (AME) data cartridge.
Positioning
The 7208-342 External 8mm Tape Drive is an excellent
solution for users of 8mm tape. Some features are:
• Exchange earlier 8mm tape solutions. Read
compatible with earlier 012, 222, 232, or 234
models.
• Fast single cartridge tape backup
The Model 342 can be used for save/restore or archiving. It can provide a media capacity of
up to 40 GB of data storage per cartridge using the Improved Data Recording Capability
(IDRC) algorithm for compression. It has a sustained data rate of 3 M per second (6 M per
second with a 2:1 compression ratio). This gives four times the capacity and six times the
date rate of the 7208 Model 012.
The Model 342 has the ability to read (but not write) earlier 7 GB, 5 GB, and 2.3 GB 8 mm
metal particle tape formats.
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