Cartridge Specifications, Compatibility, And Formats; Projected Duty Cycle - Compaq SLR Tape Drive User Manual

1-2 Overview
Cartridge Specifications,
Compatibility, and Formats
IMPORTANT:
that have been qualified by Compaq. The qualified vendors are Sony and Imation.
The drive supports the standard QIC formats listed in the following table .
QIC format
QIC-4GB
QIC-2GB-DC
QIC-1000
QIC-525
QIC-150
NOTE: The Compaq SLR Tape drive features full read and write backwards-
compatibility between the above formats.

Projected Duty Cycle

The user should track the amount of time that the drive is in use so that
cleaning can be scheduled at the appropriate time.
See Chapter 4, "Operating and Cleaning the Drive" for more information on
cleaning the drive.
We recommend that you use only tapes purchased from vendors
Table 1-1
Supported QIC formats
Cartridge Capacity Imation Product
8.0 GB (compressed) or Magnus 4.0
4.0 GB (uncompressed)
2.5 GB Magnus 2.5
2.0 GB Magnus 2.0
1.2 GB Magnus 1.2
1.0 GB Magnus 1.0
525 MB DC-6525
320 MB DC-6320
250 MB DC-6250
150 MB DC-6150
Sony Product
QD9400
QD9250
QD9120
QD6525
QD6250
QD6150
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