Removable Storage Media Devices 355Removable Storage Media DevicesPrerequisitesThe minimum OS/400 release required is V4R2 with PTFs as stated in Informational APARII11671.FeaturesSCSI cable should be specified with any order to attach the tape drive to its controller card.For the SCSI cable, only feature #9224 or #5224 (2.4 m) is available. The maximum cablelength is 3 m.A media feature must also be ordered, either #9501 consisting of one 4 GB cartridge, onecleaning cartridge, and one test cartridge for the 7207 Model 122, or #7501, which includesan additional four 4 GB cartridges over the #9501 package.Additional cartridges (#2503) and cleaning cartridges (#2504) can be ordered by MES.The 7207 Model 122 is available in black only.IBM 7208 External 8mm Tape Drive Model 342The 7208 Model 342 is a stand-alone SCSI 8mm streaming tape drive with acapacity of a 20 GB per cartridge. It supports the 170-meter advancedmetal-evaporated (AME) data cartridge.PositioningThe 7208-342 External 8mm Tape Drive is an excellentsolution for users of 8mm tape. Some features are:• Exchange earlier 8mm tape solutions. Readcompatible with earlier 012, 222, 232, or 234models.• Fast single cartridge tape backupThe Model 342 can be used for save/restore or archiving. It can provide a media capacity ofup to 40 GB of data storage per cartridge using the Improved Data Recording Capability(IDRC) algorithm for compression. It has a sustained data rate of 3 M per second (6 M persecond with a 2:1 compression ratio). This gives four times the capacity and six times thedate rate of the 7208 Model 012.The Model 342 has the ability to read (but not write) earlier 7 GB, 5 GB, and 2.3 GB 8 mmmetal particle tape formats.
