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SCSI Peripherals and I/O Information
HP C2478SZ (C1504B) DDS Tape Drives
Figure 11-5 shows the C2478SZ DDS tape drive.
Figure 11-5 HP C2478SZ Tape Drive
Specifications
• Integrated Single-ended SCSI-2 interface
• Reads and Writes DDS-1 formats dependent on the mounted tape dimension:
60 meter tape - DDS-1 = 1.3 Gbytes
90 meter tape - DDS-1 = 2.0 Gbytes
The above capacities will increase from 2 to 4 times the non-compressed capacities. The average
data compression factor is 2 to 1.
• 1 Mbyte Data Buffer
• Switch or program selectable on-board DCLZ data compression
• Automatic Error correction and detection
• Downloadable firmware
• Asynchronous burst data transfer rate = 1.5 Mbytes/sec.
• Synchronous burst transfer rate maximum = 5.0 Mbytes/sec.