INCITS/ISO/IEC 13842 : 1995 : R2001

Section 1: General
1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative reference
4 Definitions
5 Conventions and notations
6 List of acronyms
7 General description of the optical disk cartridge
8 General requirements
9 Reference Drive
Section 2: Mechanical and physical characteristics
10 Dimensional and physical characteristics of the case
11 Dimensional, mechanical and physical characteristics
   of the disk
12 Interface between cartridge and drive
Section 3: Format of information
13 Track geometry
14 Track format
15 Sector format
16 Recording code
17 Formatted Zone
18 Layout of the User Zone
19 Defect Management in the Rewritable and Write Once Zones
Section 4: Characteristics of embossed information
20 Method of testing
21 Signal from grooves
22 Signals from Headers
23 Signals from embossed Recording fields
24 Signals from Control Track PEP marks
Section 5: Characteristics of the recording layer
25 Method of testing
26 Magneto-optical characteristics
27 Write characteristics
28 Erase power determination
Section 6: Characteristics of user data
29 Method of testing
30 Minimum quality of a sector
31 Data interchange requirements
Annexes
A - Air cleanliness class 1 00 000
B - Edge distortion test
C - Compliance test
D - Test method for measuring the adsorbent force of the hub
E - CRC for ID fields
F - Interleave, CRC, ECC, Resync for the data field
G - Determination of Resync pattern
H - Read Channel for measuring C/N and jitter
J - Timing jitter measuring procedure
K - Definition of write pulse shape
L - Measurement of figure of merit
M - Implementation Independent Mark Quality Determination (IIMQD)
    for the interchange of recorded media
N - Requirements for interchange
P - Office environment
Q - Derivation of the operating climatic environment
R - Transportation
S - Sector retirement guidelines
T - Track deviation measurement
U - Values to be implemented in existing and future standards
V - Guidelines for the use of Type WO ODCs

Specifies: - the conditions for conformance testing and the Reference Drive; - the environments in which the cartridges are to be operated and stored; - the mechanical, physical and dimensional characteristics of the cartridge, so as to provide mechanical interchangeability between data processing systems; - the format of the information on the disk, both embossed and user-written, including the physical disposition of the tracks and sectors, the error correction codes, the modulation methods used; - the characteristics of the embossed information on the disk; - the magneto-optical characteristics of the disk, enabling processing systems to write data onto the disk; - the minimum quality of user-written data on the disk, enabling data processing systems to read data from the disk.