Exabyte EXB-8505 8mm - Manual (Page 16)

Features
The EXB-8205, EXB-8205XL, EXB-8505, and EXB-8505XL are enhanced
8mm digital helical-scan cartridge tape subsystems (tape drives). The
tape drives are packaged in the industry standard 5.25-inch half-high
form factor, which allows for ease of integration across a multitude of
platforms.
Featuring an integral Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
controller (either single-ended or differential configuration), these
tape drives are the easily integrated solution to your journaling,
archiving, data interchange, software distribution, imaging, data
acquisition, and backup/restore needs.
Note: This specification applies to the EXB-8205, EXB-8205XL,
EXB-8505, and EXB-8505XL. However, most of the
illustrations in this manual show the EXB-8505.
In their compressed modes, the EXB-8205 can store up to 5 GBytes
and the EXB-8505 can store up to 10 GBytes on a single 112m data
cartridge, assuming an average compression ratio of 2:1.
The eXtended-Length (XL) configurations of these tape drives
provide additional capacity by supporting EXATAPE
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160m XL 8mm
Data Cartridges. Assuming an average compression ratio of 2:1, the
EXB-8505XL can store up to 14 GBytes of data on a single 160m XL
data cartridge. Assuming the same compression ratio, the
EXB-8205XL can store up to 7 GBytes on a single data cartridge.
For more information on EXATAPE data cartridge capacity, see
page 1-8. For more information on EXATAPE data cartridges, see
page 1-20.
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Important EXATAPE 160m XL 8mm Data Cartridges are only
supported by the extended length tape drives (EXB-8205XL and
EXB-8505XL). The standard tape drives (EXB-8205 and
EXB-8505) cannot write on or read from 160m XL data cartridges
and will automatically eject them.
As shown in Figure 1-1, the four tape drive models look identical,
except for minor differences in the LEDs and the unload button.
1-2 EXB-8205 and EXB-8505 510504
(Standard and XL)
1 Features