Quarter-Inch Cartridge (Qic) Tape Drive Front Panel And Status Displays; Quarter-Inch Cartridge (Qic) Tape Drive Front Panel; Qic Tape Cartridge Compatibility - HP 3000 Series Handbook

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Quarter-Inch Cartridge (QIC) Tape Drive Front Panel and Status Displays
Figure 1-15 shows the QIC tape drive front panel and indicator.
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Figure 1-15. Quarter-Inch Cartridge (QIC) Tape Drive Front Panel
1. Drive Activity Light 2. Tape Access Door
Drive Activity Light: is lit when the drive is being accessed, such as when the motor is
running, when the heads are being positioned, when a command is being executed, and when
data is being transferred.
The QIC drive can store up to 1.2 Gbytes, depending upon the QIC format in which the data
is written and which cartridge type is used. Refer to Table 1-11. The QIC drive reads and
writes the formats shown in Table 1-12.
Table 1-11. QIC Tape Cartridge Compatibility
Tape Write
Read
1.2GB QIC-1000C
QIC-1000C
1.0GB QIC-1000C
QIC-1000C
525MB QIC-525, QIC-150, QIC-120
QIC-525, QIC-150, QIC-120,
QIC-24
320MB QIC-525, QIC-150, QIC-120 QIC-525, QIC-150, QIC-120,
QIC-24
250MB QIC-150, QIC-120
QIC-525, QIC-150, QIC-120,
QIC-24
150MB QIC-150, QIC-120
QIC-150, QIC-120, QIC-24
60MB
QIC-120
QIC-120, QIC-24
45MB
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QIC-24
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