Ibm 3995 Optical Library C-Models - IBM AS/400e User Handbook Manual

IBM 3995 Optical Library C-Models

3 9 9 5 O p tic a l L ib ra ry M o d e ls C 4 0 , C 4 2 , C 4 6 , a n d C 4 8
The IBM 3995 Optical Library C-Models feature high capacity 5.2G or Extended Multifunction
optical drives, known as 8X technology. It is eight times the capacity of the first generation
optical technology.
The drives use industry standard 5.25-inch optical cartridges, supporting the following optical
technologies:
• Magneto-Optical (MO) rewritable, which allows data on the cartridge
• Permanent Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM), which provides a permanent and
unalterable copy of the data by physically ablating (burning) holes into the recording
layer
• Continuous Composite Worm (CCW), which provides an unalterable copy of data
through a software implementation of WORM, using rewritable media
Rewritable, permanent (ablative) WORM and CCW optical cartridges can be mixed within the
same library.
The 5.2G (8X) optical drives in the C models can read and write to 5.2G (8X) and 2.6G (4X)
optical cartridges and read only 1.3G (2X) and 650M (1X) optical cartridges. The 2.6G (4X)
optical drives in the C models can read and write to 2.6G (4X) and 1.3G (2X) optical
cartridges and read only 650M (1X) optical cartridges.
Each library has an auto changer, which is used to move the optical cartridges between the
optical drives, the cartridge storage cells, and the entry/exit slot located on the top of the
libraries. Certain models feature a dual-gripper cartridge picker on this auto changer for
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