Handling magnetic tapes and magnetic tape cartridges

ARCHIVE can only process magnetic tapes and MT cartridges that have been created by ARCHIVE.

ARCHIVE supports magnetic disks and all TAPE class volumes supported by BS2000/OSD as of V6.0. Details of the device and volume types are provided in the “System Installation” manual [6].

ARCHIVE supports direct positioning when reading MT cartridges. This enhances performance when copying, restoring and listing save files.