ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 15896 First edition 1999-12-15 Information technology Data interchange on 12,7 mm 208-track magnetic tape cartridges DLT 5 format Technologies de Iinformation Echange de donneées sur cartouches de bande magnétique de 12,7 mm, 208 pistes Format DLT 5 Reference number ISO/IEC 15896:1999(E) E( @ISO/IEC 1999 HS under ted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 15896:1999(E) PDFdisclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In downloading this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by isO member bodies. In the unlikely event ISO/IEC1999 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56. CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 734 10 79 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.ch Printed in Switzerland @ISO/IEC1999-All rightsreserved py IHS unde Not for Resale CISO/IEC ISO/IEC 15896:1999 (E) Contents Section 1 - General 1 1 Scope 1 2 Conformance 1 2.1 Magnetic tape cartridges 1 2.2 Generating systems 1 2.3 Receiving systems 1 3 Normative references 1 4 Definitions 1 4.1 Average Signal Amplitude 22 4.2 azimuth 4.3 back surface 2 4.4 Beginning-Of-Tape marker (BOT) 2 4.5 block 2 4.6 byte 2 4.7 cartridge 2 4.8 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) character 2 4.9 Early Warning (EW) 22 4.10 Error-Detecting Code (EDC) 4.11 End-Of-Tape marker (EOT) 2 4.12 Entity 2 4.13 Error-Correcting Code (ECC) 2 4.14 Envelope 22 4.15 Envelope size 4.16 flux transition position 2 4.17 flux transition spacing 22 4.18 logical track 4.19 magnetic tape 22 4.20 Master Standard Reference Tape 4.21 object 222 4.22 page 4.23 physical recording density 4.24 physical track 22 4.25 Record 4.26 Reference Edge 2 4.27 Reference Field 22 4.28 Secondary Standard Reference Tape 4.29 Standard Reference Amplitude (SRA) 3 4.30 Standard Reference Current 3 ili s etworking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale