INCITS/ISO/IEC 15486 : 1998

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 for WORM Media
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 Imbalance of difference signal
27 Write characteristics
Section 6 - Characteristics of user data
28 Method of testing
29 Minimum quality of a sector
30 Data interchange requirements
Annexes
A - Air cleanliness class 100 000
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 NBSNR and jitter
J - Timing jitter measuring procedure
K - Definition of write pulse shape
L - Implementation Independent Mark Quality Determination
    (IIMQD) for the interchange of recorded media
M - Requirements for interchange
N - Measurement implementation for Cross-track signal
P - Values to be implemented in existing and future standards
Q - Office environment
R - Derivation of the operating climatic environment
S - Transportation
T - Sector retirement guidelines
U - Track deviation measurement
V - Measure of the vertical birefringence of the substrate
W - Laser Power Calibration for evaluation of media power
    sensitivity

Describes the characteristics of a 130 mm Optical Disk Cartridge (ODC) of the Type WORM (Write Once Read Many) with a capacity of 2,6 Gbytes.