Chapter 4. Using Ultrium Media; Overview Of Ultrium Media; Worm Functionality For Ultrium Tape Drives And Media; The Ibm System Storage Lto Data Cartridge For Ultrium 3 Tape Drives - IBM TS3500 Introduction And Planning Manual

Chapter 4. Using Ultrium media

Overview of Ultrium Media

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Figure 34. The IBM System Storage LTO Data Cartridge for Ultrium 3 tape drives

WORM functionality for Ultrium tape drives and media

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The section introduces information about using Ultrium tape media.
The IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library automates the storage and
movement of IBM LTO Ultrium Tape Cartridges.
This section describes Ultrium media.
Within the TS3500 Tape Library and subject to certain restrictions, the Ultrium tape
drives use the following cartridge types:
v IBM System Storage 2500 GB LTO Data Cartridge (Ultrium 6 cartridge without
WORM capability)
v IBM System Storage 2500 GB LTO WORM Data Cartridge (Ultrium 6 cartridge)
v IBM System Storage 1500 GB LTO Data Cartridge (Ultrium 5 cartridge without
WORM capability)
v IBM System Storage 1500 GB LTO WORM Data Cartridge (Ultrium 5 cartridge)
v IBM System Storage 800 GB LTO Data Cartridge (Ultrium 4 cartridge without
WORM capability)
v IBM System Storage 800 GB LTO WORM Data Cartridge (Ultrium 4 cartridge)
v IBM System Storage 400 GB LTO WORM Data Cartridge (Ultrium 3 cartridge)
v IBM System Storage 400 GB LTO Data Cartridge (Ultrium 3 cartridge without
WORM capability)
v IBM System Storage 200 GB LTO Data Cartridge (Ultrium 2 cartridge)
v IBM System Storage 100 GB LTO Data Cartridge (Ultrium 1 cartridge)
v IBM System Storage Universal LTO Cleaning Cartridge
v IBM System Storage LTO Cleaning Cartridge
v Diagnostic cartridge
Figure 34 shows the IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium Data Cartridge.
This topic describes the write-once-read-many (WORM) functionality that is used
by the LTO Ultrium 3 and newer tape drives and supported cartridges.
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