Foreword
1 Scope, purpose, and application
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 Environment and safety
4.1 Testing environment
4.2 Operating environment
4.3 Storage environment
4.4 Transportation
4.5 Safety
5 Tape mechanical, physical, and dimensional requirements
5.1 Material
5.2 BOT and EOT sense slots
5.3 Discontinuities
5.4 Width
5.5 Total tape thickness
5.6 Longitudinal curvature
5.7 Out-of-plane distortions
5.8 Cupping
5.9 Dynamic frictional characteristics
5.10 Length
5.11 Straightness
5.12 Coating adhesion
5.13 Layer-to-layer adhesion
5.14 Young's modulus
5.15 Surface roughness
5.16 Tensile strength
5.17 Residual elongation
5.18 Magnetic coating
5.19 Electrical resistance of the surface
5.20 Inhibitor tape
5.21 Tape opacity
6 Mechanical specifications of the tape cartridge
6.1 Cartridge case label areas
6.2 Cartridge case locating areas
6.3 Tape cartridge case flexibility
6.4 Recognition notches/write protect block
6.5 Tape-reel hub
6.6 Metallic insert
6.7 Brake-mechanism
6.8 Tape winding
6.9 Winding tension
6.10 Tape pack circumferences
6.11 Tape-reel moment of inertia
6.12 Leader-block tape attachment
6.13 Leader block pickup position
6.14 Leader-block insertion force
6.15 Leader-block pull-out force
6.16 Reflection density
7 Magnetic recording performance
7.1 Test conditions
7.2 Typical field
7.3 Signal amplitude
7.4 Resolution
7.5 Ease of erasure
7.6 Narrow-band signal-to-noise ratio
7.7 Tape dropouts
8 Method of recording helical tracks
8.1 Physical recording density
8.2 Bit shift
9 Track format
9.1 Track positions
9.2 Helical track width
9.3 Helical track pitch
9.4 Helical track angle
9.5 Gap azimuths
10 Format
10.1 General
10.2 Beginning of tape (BOT)
10.3 Scan groups
10.4 Third level ECC scan group (ECC3)
10.5 Density identification scan group (DID)
10.6 Internal leader header scan group (ILH)
10.7 Separator scan group (SEP)
10.8 Data scan group
10.9 Data packet format
10.10 Pad scan group
10.11 Tape mark scan group
10.12 End of Data scan group
10.13 Physical end of tape
10.14 Rewrite
10.15 Appends
10.16 Blank tape
10.17 Other write functions
11 Helical tape format
11.1 Single tracks
11.2 Dual azimuth tracks
11.3 ECC (read/write data)
11.4 Write data path
12 Longitudinal tracks
12.1 Method of recording
12.2 Longitudinal time code track
12.3 Longitudinal control track
12.4 Longitudinal reserved track
13 Helical track data format
14 Byte translation
Annexes
A Recommendations for transportation
B Measurement of light transmittance
C Measurement of bit shift
D Tape cartridge handling guidelines
E Cross tape track measurement technique
F Bar code