Sony SDX-700C, Product Specifications Manual

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15. Appendix H
SONY AIT-3 drive SDX-700 series Ver.2.1 15-3
SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) : This computer device interface has been certified as an American
National Standard by ANSI. The standard contains the electrical specifications, communication protocol, and
command structure necessary to connect various computer peripherals to a host computer.
Soft Error : A soft error is a data error which can be corrected by a RAW rewrite during writing, or by C1, C2 or C3
ECC, or a read-retry during reading.
Spacing : The act of positioning the medium on a sequential access device.
System Area : A section in the Lead-in Area used to store the tape usage information.
Tape Log : The Tape Log contains details of the history of a tape, the total number of groups written, of RAW retries,
of groups read, of C3 ECC retries, and of loads. The log is copied into RAM when the tape is loaded into the
SDX-700C, updated as the tape is used, and written back into the System area on the tape when it is unloaded. Tape
Write Protect, power failure or reset will lose the log data maintained in RAM.
Under Length : The incorrect length condition that exists after executing a read command when the requested
transfer length in the command descriptor block exceeds the length of the actual block read.
Volume : A recording medium together with its physical carrier. (a single tape cassette)