ISO/IEC 12246:1993

Information technology — 8 mm wide magnetic tape cartridge dual azimuth format for information interchange — Helical scan recording ISO/IEC 12246:1993

Publication date:   Dec 23, 1993

General information

90.93 Standard confirmed   Aug 21, 2020

ISO/IEC

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23 Digitally Recorded Media for Information Interchange and Storage

International Standard

35.220.23   Cassettes and cartridges for magnetic tapes

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Scope

This International Standard specifies the physical and magnetic characteristics of an 8 mm wide magnetic tape cartridge to enable interchangeability of such cartridges. It also specifies the quality of the recorded signals, the format and the recording method, thus allowing, together with ISO 1001 for Magnetic Tape Labelling, full data interchange by means of such magnetic tape cartridges. It is based on ISO/IEC 11319, but uses Dual Azimuth Recording to allow the raw capacity to be doubled. The format supports variable length Logical Records, high speed search, and the use of a registered data compression algorithm.

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PUBLISHED
ISO/IEC 12246:1993
90.93 Standard confirmed
Aug 21, 2020

Relations

Adopted from ECMA-169