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BS ISO/IEC 13481:1993
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Information technology. Data interchange on 130 mm optical disk cartridges. Capacity: 1 gigabyte per cartridge
Hardcopy , PDF
English
15-04-1994
Section 1 - General
1 Scope
2 Conformance
2.1 Optical Disk Cartridges
2.2 Generating System
2.3 Receiving System
3 Normative references
4 Definitions
4.1 case
4.2 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
4.3 embossed mark
4.4 entrance surface
4.5 Error Correction Code (ECC)
4.6 field
4.7 format
4.8 groove
4.9 interleaving
4.10 Kerr rotation
4.11 land and groove
4.12 mark
4.13 optical disk
4.14 optical disk cartridge (ODC)
4.15 polarization
4.16 recording layer
4.17 Reed-Solomon code
4.18 rewritable optical disk
4.19 sector
4.20 substrate
4.21 track
4.22 write-once functionality
4.23 zone
5 Conventions and notations
5.1 Representation of numbers
5.2 Names
6 List of acronyms
7 General description of the optical disk cartridge
8 General requirements
8.1 Environments
8.1.1 Testing environment
8.1.2 Operating environment
8.1.3 Storage environment
8.1.4 Transportation
8.2 Temperature shock
8.3 Safety requirements
8.4 Flammability
9 Reference drive
9.1 Optical system
9.2 Optical beam
9.3 Read channels
9.4 Tracking
9.5 Rotation of the disk
Section 2 - Mechanical and physical characteristics
10 Dimensions and mechanical characteristics of
the case
10.1 General
10.2 Case drawings
10.3 Sides, reference axes and reference planes
10.3.1 Relationship of Sides A and B
10.3.2 Reference axes and case reference planes
10.4 Materials
10.5 Mass
10.6 Overall dimensions
10.7 Location hole
10.8 Alignment hole
10.9 Surfaces on reference planes P
10.10 Insertion slots and detent features
10.11 Gripper slots
10.12 Write-inhibit holes
10.13 Media sensor holes
10.14 Head and motor window
10.15 Shutter
10.16 Slot for shutter opener
10.17 Shutter sensor notch
10.18 User label areas
11 Dimensional and physical characteristics of the
disk
11.1 Dimensions of the disk
11.1.1 Outer diameter
11.1.2 Thickness
11.1.3 Clamping zone
11.1.4 Clearance zone
11.2 Mass
11.3 Moment of inertia
11.4 Imbalance
11.5 Axial deflection
11.6 Axial acceleration
11.7 Dynamic radial runout
11.8 Radial acceleration
11.9 Tilt
12 Drop test
13 Interface between disk and drive
13.1 Clamping technique
13.2 Dimensions of the hub
13.2.1 Outer diameter of the hub
13.2.2 Height of the hub
13.2.3 Diameter of the centre hole
13.2.4 Height of the top of the centre hole at
diameter D9
13.2.5 Centring length at diameter D9
13.2.6 Chamfer at diameter D9
13.2.7 Chamfer at diameter D8
13.2.8 Outer diameter of the magnetizable ring
13.2.9 Inner diameter of the magnetizable ring
13.2.10 Thickness of the magnetizable material
13.2.11 Position of the top of the magnetizable ring
relative to the disk reference plane
13.3 Magnetizable material
13.4 Clamping force
13.5 Capture cylinder for the hub
13.6 Disk position in the operating condition
14 Characteristics of the substrate
14.1 Index of refraction
14.2 Thickness
Section 3 - Format of information
15 Track geometry
15.1 Track shape
15.2 Direction of rotation
15.3 Track pitch
15.4 Track number
16 Track format
16.1 Formatted Zone
16.2 Control tracks
16.3 Control Track PEP Zone
16.3.1 Recording in the PEP Zone
16.3.2 Cross-track loss
16.3.3 Format of the tracks of the PEP Zone
16.4 Control Track SFP Zones
16.4.1 Duplicate of the PEP information
16.5 Media information
16.6 System information
16.7 Unspecified content
16.8 Requirements for interchange of a user-recorded
cartridge
17 Sector format
17.1 Sector Mark (SM)
17.2 VFO areas
17.3 Address Mark (AM)
17.4 ID and CRC
17.5 Postamble (PA)
17.6 Offset Detection Flag (ODF)
17.7 Gap
17.8 Flag
17.9 Auto Laser Power Control (ALPC)
17.10 Sync
17.11 Data field
17.11.1 User bytes
17.11.2 CRC and ECC
17.11.3 Bytes for control information
17.11.4 Last bytes of the Data field of the 512-byte
sector format
17.11.5 Resync
18 Recording code
19 Defect management
19.1 Media initialization
19.2 Write and read procedure
19.3 Layout of the User Zone
19.3.1 Disk Definition Structure (DDS)
19.3.2 Primary Defect List (PDL)
19.3.3 Secondary Defect List (SDL)
19.3.4 Zone Structure Table (ZST)
Section 4 - Characteristics of embossed information
20 ZCAV format
20.1 Tracking
20.2 Characteristics of pre-recorded information
20.2.1 Groove-related signals
20.2.2 Properties of pre-recorded marks
20.2.3 Parameters of the read characteristics
Section 5 - Characteristics of the recording layer
21 Characteristics of the recording layer
21.1 Test conditions
21.1.1 General
21.1.2 Read conditions
21.1.3 Write conditions
21.1.4 Erase conditions
21.2 Baseline reflectance
21.2.1 General
21.2.2 Actual value
21.2.3 Requirement
21.3 Magneto-optical recording in the User Zone
21.3.1 Resolution
21.3.2 Imbalance of magneto-optical signal
21.3.3 Figure of merit for magneto-optical signal
21.3.4 Narrow-band signal-to-noise ratio
21.3.5 Cross-talk ratio
21.3.6 Ease of erasure
Annexes
A Definition of write and erase pulse width
B Measurement of figure of merit
C Values to be implemented in future standards
D Pointer fields
E CRC for ID fields
F Interleave, CRC, ECC, Resync for the Data field
G Sector retirement guidelines
H Office environment
J Transportation
K Requirements for interchange
L SCSI Logical Block to Physical Sector Mapping
M Derivation of the operating climatic environment
N Air cleanliness class 100 000
P Guidelines for using ODCs of Type W/O
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