HP Ultrium Drive - Manual

Related documents 7 Dealing with errors Ultrium features General documents and standardization • Enhanced Small Computer System Interface (SCSI-2), ANSI X3T9.2-1993 Rev. 10L, available through ANSI Monitoring drive and tape condition 2 SW Integration: ch. 7 Software troubleshooting techniques 2 SW I...

9 1 Features Feature Specification Recording format Linear Tape Open Ultrium-3 and Ultrium-2.Ultrium-1 tapes can be read but not written. Data compression ALDC Data encoding method 16-channel PRML Variable speed recording 27–80 MB/s (1:3) Ultrium-3 Read-While-Write Standard—data is verified immediat...

Physical specification 10 2 Physical specification Dimensions Detailed dimensions Figure 1-1 Plan SCSI Fibre Channel Internal width: 146 mm (5.75") 146 mm (5.75") height: 82.5 mm (3.25") 82.5 mm (3.25") depth: 203 mm (8") 213.8 mm (8.4") External width: 208 mm (8.2") n/a ...

Physical specification 12 Figure 1-5 Rear View—SCSI Figure 1-6 Rear view—Fibre Channel Product weight *including front panel and ESD bag but excluding rails Drive orientation An HP Ultrium drive will operate in the 0°, –90° and +90° when viewed from the front panel. In addition, in the 0° axis, the ...

13 3 Electrical requirements PSU requirements Internal and rack-mounted drives The drives are specified to operate at 5V±5% and 12V±10%. Any PSU used to power the drive must be capable of providing 5V nominal (when the drive pulls 5A on the 5V rail) and 12V nominal (when the drive pulls 2A on the 12...

15 4 Electromagnetic compatibility NOTE: The EMC performance of internal storage products depends on the characteristics of the system in which the product is installed. HP has tested products installed in network storage system enclosures and in external desktop enclosures to verify EMC performance...

Electromagnetic compatibility 16 DC magnetic field interference • IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations, 30th Edition, 1989-01-01 • U.S. CFR 49, paragraph 173.1020, revision date: 1983-11-01

17 5 Environmental Climatics These apply to the mechanism unless otherwise noted. For the environmental specification of media, see Chapter 7, “Media” . Operating Non-operating General Parameter Specification Operating temperature with media at 6 cfm airflow: 10°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F) at 8 cfm air...

Environmental 18 Dynamics Noise Airflow HP Ultrium drives require forced airflow from front to back. Parameter Specification Operating sine vibration 0.31G pk 5–500 Hz @ 1 octave/min with 15 min dwell at peak resonance Operating random vibration 0.31G rms 5–500 Hz 0.000194 g 2 /Hz Operating shock 5G...

19 6 Safety Safety regulatory standards Required agency approvals Transceivers The Fibre Optic transceivers used in FC products are Class 1 Laser components and comply with US FDA regulations. These components are certified to meet the Class 1 eye safety requirements of EN (IEC) 60825 and the electr...

Media 20 7 Media Specification *Capacities at 2:1 data compression. The actual capacity depends on the compression ratio of the data. This is typically 2:1 but can be anywhere between 1:1 and 110:1. HP Product Number Format Capacity* Notes C7973A U3 800 GB Read and write C7973W U3 WORM 800 GB Write ...

Media 22 Interface specification • Contactless, passive RF interface using a proximity inductive coupling with a range in the order of millimeters. • Power to the transponder is coupled through the interface. • The range depends on implementation (10 to 20 mm is the maximum). The best error rate per...

23 8 Ultrium format standard Compatibility HP Gen 3 Ultrium drives are specified to interchange data cartridges with other tape drives that comply to the LTO U-18, U-28, and U-316 specification documents: This specification is only applicable when: • Cartridges carry the Ultrium logo. • Cartridges a...

Reliability 24 9 Reliability Description Specification MTBF (100% duty cycle) 250,000 hours Load/unload life 100,000 swaps MSBF (automation swaps) 100,000 swaps Head life (typical) 60,000 hours Media durability 1,000,000 passes Maximum cartridge uses 20,000 threads Backup failure rate <0.1% Resto...

25 10 Performance specification Transfer rates The bandwidth of the data compression engine determines the drive’s streaming capabilities based on the compression ratio of the data it is handling as follows: The drive will match the throughput of any host up to the maximum native transfer rate multi...

Performance specification 26 Timings Capacity full backup times The following table shows approximate backup times for the available tape cartridges: Load/unload times The load and unload times are as follows: * The unload time for WORM cartridges is greater, typically 22s Access times (time to data...

27 11 Automation Control Interface Specification Physical interface • RS-422, Drive Sense, Library Sense, Reset and Attention signals • A default of 9600 baud at power-on, after a tape drive reset and after an ACI reset. After that, the library can configure the tape drive to use other baud rates (1...

Inde x Index 29 A access time 26 ACI 27 agency approvals 19 airflow 18 altitude 17 ANSI 5 archival storage environment 21 automation control interface 27 B backup times 26 bandwidth 25 C climatics 17 CM 9 , 21 compatibility 23 compression 25 compression format 9 D data compression 25 dimensions, dri...