ISO/IEC 17462:2000

This standard was last reviewed and confirmed in 2020. Therefore this version remains current.

The electronic version of this International Standard can be downloaded from the ISO/IEC Information Technology Task Force (ITTF) web site

This International Standard specifies the physical and magnetic characteristics of a 3,81 mm wide magnetic tape cartridge to

enable physical interchangeability of such cartridges between drives. It also specifies the quality of the recorded signals, the

recording method and the recorded format - called Digital Data Storage 4 (DDS-4) - thereby allowing data interchange between

drives by means of such magnetic tape cartridges.

Information interchange between systems also requires, at a minimum, agreement between the interchange parties upon the

interchange code(s) and the specifications of the structure and labelling of the information on the interchanged cartridge.

Under information interchange circumstances in which a processing algorithm, e.g. for lossless data compression as specified in

ISO/IEC 11558, is applied to the host data prior to recording on the tape and a complementary reprocessing algorithm is

applied after the data is read from the tape, agreement upon these by the interchange parties is also required.

Status
: Published

Publication date
: 2000-09
Edition
: 1

Number of pages
: 102
Technical Committee
: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23 Digitally recorded media for information interchange and storage
ICS
:
35.220.23 Cassettes and cartridges for magnetic tapes

	Format	Language
std 1 208	Paper

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