Standard ECMA-259
Data Interchange on 12,7 mm 208-Track
Magnetic Tape Cartridges - DLT 5 Format
(June 1997)
This Ecma Standard specifies the physical and magnetic characteristics
of a 12,7 mm wide, 208-track magnetic tape cartridge, to enable
physical interchangeability of such cartridges between drives.
It also specifies the quality of the recorded signals, a format
- called Digital Linear Tape 5 (DLT 5) - and a recording method,
thereby allowing data interchange between drives. Together with
a labelling standard, for instance Standard ECMA-13
for Magnetic Tape Labelling, it allows full data interchange by
means of such magnetic tape cartridges.
The following file can be freely downloaded:
| File name |
Size (Bytes) |
Content |
| ECMA-259.pdf |
1 112 135 |
Acrobat (r) PDF file |
This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 15896.
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