Your Ditto Easy 800 Tape Drive; Inserting And Removing Tapes; Tape Capacity And Compatibility - Iomega 3151100 User Manual

Your Ditto Easy 800 Tape Drive

Your Ditto Easy 800 Tape Drive
Your Ditto Easy 800 Tape Drive
Your Ditto Easy 800 Tape Drive Your Ditto Easy 800 Tape Drive

Inserting and Removing Tapes

Grip and insert your tape minicartridge. Push past the spring resistance
of the drive until the minicartridge snaps into place, leaving about 3 cm
(about 1 in) still outside the drive. To remove the tape minicartridge
from the drive, grip as before and pull it straight out of the drive. Do
not remove the minicartridge if the drive activity light is on and
blinking. Remove tapes when not in use.

Tape Capacity and Compatibility

When using preformatted tapes with your Ditto Easy 800 drive,
Iomega recommends Travan preformatted tapes. The formatted
capacity of Ditto Easy 800 tapes (Travan TR-3) are about 400 MB.
Compressing your raw data by a 2:1 ratio (compression ratios depend
on data type) allows you to store up to 800 MB of data on the tapes.
Ditto Easy 800 drives will read, write, and format as shown in the
following table.
Tape Format
QIC-80 Travan
QIC-80 Wide
QIC-80XL
QIC-80
Tape Type Read
TR-1 YES
5122 YES
2120XL YES
2080 or 2120 YES
Write Format
YES YES
YES YES
YES YES
YES YES
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