ISO/IEC 17462:2000

Information technology — 3,81 mm wide magnetic tape cartridge for information interchange — Helical scan recording — DDS-4 format

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.

Edition	2000
Published Date	2000
Published By	International Standardization Organisation /International Electrotechnical Commission
Page Count	102