IBM 3592 JA 18P8729 User Manual
Product codes
18P8729
IBM 3592 Tape Cartridge
High-capacity tape media designed for reliability
3592 rewritable cartridge
3592 WORM cartridge
Highlights
■ Designed for the first genera-
tion IBM TotalStorage®
Enterprise Tape Drive 3592
or the second generation
IBM System Storage™ TS1120
Tape Drive
■ Available in rewritable and
write once, read many (WORM)
cartridge models
■ The JJ and JR cartridges pro-
vide fast access to application
information
■ The JA/JW and JB/JX car-
tridges support high capacity
requirements
■ Memory chip tracks cartridge
and tape drive usage
Overview
IBM 3592 Tape Cartridges are designed
to work with the first-generation
IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive
3592 Model J1A (3592 J1A tape drive)
and the second-generation IBM System
Storage TS1120 Tape Drive (TS1120
Tape Drive).
Cartridges are available in three lengths
and in either re-writeable or Write Once,
Read Many (WORM) formats. The short
length 3592 JJ/JR cartridges provide
rapid access to data and the standard
length 3592 JA/JW cartridges provide
high capacity. The 3592 Extended Data
JB and Extended WORM JX 700GB
high capacity cartridges support
TS1120 tape drives only.
Rewritable cartridges
The first-generation 3592 J1A tape
drive can initialize short length
JJ cartridges to 60GB and initialize