Structure of the labels

The general format of the labels complies with the DIN 66029 standard (magnetic tapes). These labels are also used for other volumes that are emulated as magnetic tapes or magnetic tape cartridges in BS2000.

Magnetic tape labels are 80 characters long.

Only the structure and contents of those magnetic tape labels read or written by INIT are described below.

The column headed “Field contents” contains the information that INIT writes into the field in question (or the possible contents in the case of the HDR3 label).

Key to symbols

x:	Current value
_:	Blank

The other fields contain fixed defaults.