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In addition to the standard packet format, the driver gives the user direct control over the tape drive motors and reading and writing the tones. This is used with audio tapes to control playback. A typical scenario has an audio recording on the "left" track and short bursts of 5327 Hz at key locations within the audio.
Elcaset, a format introduced in 1976 by Sony based on the RCA tape cartridge that was supposed to be more convenient than its predecessor; Digital based Digital Tape Format, a magnetic tape data storage format developed by Sony; Digital Audio Tape (DAT), a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987
Digital Tape Format is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by Sony. It uses a 1/2" wide tape, in a cassette with two reels, which is written and read with a helical scan process. The format is described by the ECMA 248 (adopted June 1998) and ISO/IEC 15731 standards. There are two sizes of tape cassettes, "S" and "L".
The IBM Linear Tape File System - Single Drive Edition, (initially released as "IBM Long Term File System"), allows tapes to be formatted as an LTFS volume, and for these volumes to be mounted - and users and applications access files and directories stored on the tape directly, including drag-and-drop of files.
Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) is a discontinued high-speed, high-capacity magnetic tape data storage format developed and controlled by Sony. It was introduced in 1996 to utilise Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) technology. It competed mainly against the DLT, LTO, DAT/DDS, and VXA formats. AIT uses 8mm tape in a cassette similar to Video8.
DVCPRO HD is codified as SMPTE 370M; the DVCPRO HD tape format is SMPTE 371M, and the MXF Op-Atom format used for DVCPRO HD on P2 cards is SMPTE 390M. While technically DVCPRO HD is a direct descendant of DV, it is used almost exclusively by professionals. Tape-based DVCPRO HD cameras exist only in shoulder mount variant.
The KIM-1 single-board computer specified a file format for magnetic tape and a format for paper tape. The paper tape format was adapted slightly and has been used to interchange files for computers based on the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor. [1] The open-source Srecord package simplified this tape format by eliminating the <NUL> and XOFF ...
Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) is the tape format used by several backup tools for the Microsoft Windows platform. Notable examples include Microsoft's NTBackup program, Backup Exec and the backup utilities included in Microsoft SQL Server. Several open source utilities have been written to read MTF on non-Windows platforms. [1] [2] [3]