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ECMA-315

12,65 mm wide magnetic tape cassette for information interchange - Helical scan recording - DTF-2

1st edition, December 2000

This Ecma Standard specifies the physical and magnetic characteristics of magnetic tape cassettes, using magnetic tape 12,65 mm wide so as to provide physical interchange of such cassettes between drives. It also specifies the quality of the recorded signals, the recording method and the recording format, called Digital Tape Format-2 (DTF-2), thereby allowing data interchange between drives by means of suh cassettes. The format supports variable length Logical Records, high-speed search, and the use of a registered algorithm for data compression.

This Ecma Standard specifies two sizes of cassette. For the purposes of this Ecma Standard the larger cassette is referred to as Type L, and the smaller as Type S.

Together with a standard for volume and file structure, e.g. Standard ECMA-13, this Ecma Standard provides for full data interchange between data processing systems

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Classification

CategoryData interchange – magnetic tapes and cartridges

SubcategoryMagnetic tapes and cartridges

Technical CommitteeTC17 (this TC is no longer active)

ISO/IEC number20061