Spare part number
158854-001/FE-14820-01 AIT 50GB Internal
Interface
Ultra2 SCSI (LVD)
Drive type
8 mm AIT tape drive
AIT 50GB, Hot Plug
Spare part numer (190716-001 / 70-40375-S1)
Option part number (215487-B21 (Carbon), 3R-A2779-AA)
Supported Operating Systems
OpenVMS (Native) VMS7.1-2/7.2-1
Tru64 UNIX (Native) 4.0f/5.0a
Windows NT v4.0, Windows 2000
NetWare v4.12 & 5.0
Linux for Intel (Not supported with hot plug configuration)
Sun Solaris v7.0, v8.0 (Native) (Not supported with hot plug configuration)
Alpha (Native) Rhat.6.1/6.2 (Not supported with hot plug configuration)
SCO UNIX v5.x Open Server (Native) 7.1.1 (Not supported with hot plug configuration)
Transfer rates
Native
16 GB/hr (Typical) 21.6 GB/hr (Maximum)
2:1 Compression
36 GB/hr (Typical) 40 GB/hr (Maximum)
Sustained transfer rate
6 MB/s (Native) 12 MB/s (Compressed)
Burst Ttansfer rate
12 MB/s Asynchronous 40 MB/s Synchronous
Linear recording density
167,000 BPI
Recording block length
Variable or fixed
Data access time
Average load/unload swap time
<16 sec.
Search speed
Avg. of 27 - 55 sec. to any point on a 755ft/230 m tape.
Media
170 and 230 m Advanced-Metal Evaporated (AME) tape with MIC*
Average media load time
14 Sec. with MIC*
28 sec. without MIC*
Search speed
120 in/s with MIC*
60 in/s without MIC*
Rewind speed
120 in/s