Features Of The Drive; Reference; How To Get Ecma-222, 246, 291 Standard Document - Sony AIT-SDX460 Product Specifications Manual

1. Introduction

1.3. Features of the Drive

Major features of the Sony SDX-460V include:
• Capacity
20 Gbyte typical when using 98 meter tape AIT-E Turbo cassette (TAITE-20N)
-52 Gbyte with 2.6:1 data compression ratio.
25 Gbyte typical when using 170 meter tape AIT-1 cassette (SDX1-25C)
-65 Gbyte with 2.6:1 data compression ratio.
35 Gbyte typical when using 230 meter tape AIT-1 cassette (SDX1-35C)
-91Gbyte with 2.6:1 data compression ratio.
40 Gbyte typical when using 186 meter tape AIT-1 Turbo cassette (TAIT1-40N or TAIT1-40C)
-104 Gbyte with 2.6:1 data compression ratio.
• Sustained transfer rate - 6Mbyte/sec when using AIT-E Turbo and AIT-1 Turbo cassette.
• Sustained transfer rate - 4Mbyte/sec when using AIT-1 cassette.
• Supported Format: AIT-E Turbo, AIT-1 Turbo and AIT-1
• Not compatible with the DDS and EXABYTE format tapes
• Burst transfer rate
100 Mbyte/sec Ultra DMA (mode 5)
• Large 12 MB Buffer Memory
• 3.5" Standard Height, 5.25" Half Height
• ATA/ATAPI-6 Interface
• Supports Variable or Fixed record length
• Read After Write (RAW) On and Off capability
• Read Retry On and Off capability
• Frame rewrite function
• Three levels of Error Correction Code (ECC)
• High Speed search (120 times nominal Read/Write speed)
• Random read, Append write
• MIC Support (Automatic reliability and performance enhancement.)
• MIC Support (Read and write capability for MIC user data area.)

1.4. Reference

Please refer to the following documents for additional information:
• Information Technology -AT Attachment with Packet Interface -6 (ATA/ATAPI-6) ANSI INCITS 361-2002
• ALDC - Adaptive Loss less Data Compression (ALDC) Algorithm;
ECMA-222, available through
• 8 mm Wide Magnetic Tape Cartridge for Information Interchange - Helical Scan Recording - AIT-1 Format;
ECMA-246, available through ECMA.
• 8 mm Wide Magnetic Tape Cartridge for Information Interchange - Helical Scan Recording - AIT-1 with MIC
Format; ECMA-291, available through ECMA.

How to get ECMA-222, 246, 291 Standard Document

1.4.1.
You can get these ECMA Standard Document file from the following URL.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/standard.html
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SONY AIT-1 Turbo drive SDX-460V series Ver.1.0