9710 (StorageTek) Addendum for NonStop Servers

Addendum to the StorageTek 9710 for the Tandem Environment
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The 9710 ACS Tape Cartridge Silo Subsystem tape drive features a
powerful Reed Solomon ECC: a 64 bit Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC)
on each 4KB of data on media, end-to-end 16 bit CRC on each record
overlapped with parity from the SCSI bus, and internal parity checking on
the cache buffer. These features result in a very low hard error rate
specified as 1 in 1 x 10
17
bits read.
Advanced Error Detection Capabilities
Numerous error detection functions are incorporated within the tape
drive to isolate and recover from problems quickly. The DLT Tape drives
utilized in the 9710 ACS Tape Cartridge Silo Subsystem are also supported
by Compaq’s TMDS Tapes Quick test.