Figure 11-5 Hp C2478Sz Tape Drive; Hp C2478Sz (C1504B) Dds Tape Drives - HP 9000 Series Service Manual

SCSI Peripherals and I/O Information

HP C2478SZ (C1504B) DDS Tape Drives

Figure 11-5 shows the C2478SZ DDS tape drive.
Figure 11-5 HP C2478SZ Tape Drive
Specifications
• Integrated Single-ended SCSI-2 interface
• Reads and Writes DDS-1 formats dependent on the mounted tape dimension:
60 meter tape - DDS-1 = 1.3 Gbytes
90 meter tape - DDS-1 = 2.0 Gbytes
The above capacities will increase from 2 to 4 times the non-compressed capacities. The average
data compression factor is 2 to 1.
• 1 Mbyte Data Buffer
• Switch or program selectable on-board DCLZ data compression
• Automatic Error correction and detection
• Downloadable firmware
• Asynchronous burst data transfer rate = 1.5 Mbytes/sec.
• Synchronous burst transfer rate maximum = 5.0 Mbytes/sec.
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