AS 3977.

1—1991
ISO/IEC 8441-1: 1991

Australian Standard
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Information processing systems—

High Density Digital Recording
(HDDR)

Part 1: Unrecorded magnetic tape

for HDDR applications
[ISO/IEC title: Information technology—High density digital
recording (HDDR)—Part 1: Unrecorded magnetic tape for (HDDR)
applications]
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee IT/10, Information Systems—
Equipment. It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on
1 August 1991 and published on 16 September 1991.
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The following interests are represented on Committee IT/10:

Australian Bankers’ Association

Australian Information Industry Association
Data media manufacturers
Interface developers
La Trobe University

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 AS 3977.1—1991

Australian Standard
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Information processing systems—

High Density Digital Recording
(HDDR)
Part 1: Unrecorded magnetic tape
for HDDR applications

First published as AS 3977.1—1991.

PUBLISHED BY STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

(STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA)
1 THE CRESCENT, HOMEBUSH, NSW 2140
ISBN 0 7262 7083 0
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee on Information Systems—
Equipment. It is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 8441-1: Information
technology—Highdensity digital recording (HDDR), Part 1: Unrecorded magnetic tape for (HDDR)
applications.
Under arrangements made between Standards Australia and the international Standards bodies,
ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, users of this Australian Standard
are advised of the following:
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cover and title pages.
For the purposes of this Australian Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:
(i) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’ should replace the words ‘International
Standard’ wherever they appear.
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(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to

Australian Standards as follows:
Reference to International Standard Australian Standard
ISO AS
1184 Plastics—Determination of tensile pro- —
perties of films
1860 I nf o rma t i on pro cessi ng — P re ci si o n 1073 Dimensions of hubs and reels for
reels for magnetic tape used in inter- magnetic tape for instrumentation
change instrumentation applications interchange
1073.2 Part 2: Precision reels

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CONTENTS
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1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

4 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4.1 Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4.2 Tape reels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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4.3 Tape wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4.4 Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

5 Test conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

5.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

5.2 Conditioning ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... ........ 8

5.3 Test environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

6 Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

6.1 Tape width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

6.2 Tape length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

6.3 Tape thickness ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... ...... 9

7 Physical properties ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... ..... 9

7.1 Yield strength . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

7.2 Elongation under stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

8 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

8.1 Reference test system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

8.2 Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

8.3 Wavelength response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

8.4 Output level uniformity (long term) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

8.5 Instantaneous nonuniformity (dropouts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

8.6 Signal-to-noise ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

8.7 Ease of erasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

8.8 Electrical surface resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

8.9 Environmental performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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8.10 Durability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

8.11 Abrasivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Annexes

A Glass- and metal-flanged tape reels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

B Wear of recording heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

C Environmental conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

C.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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C.2 Normal operating conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

C.3 Extended operating conditions ........... ... .. .... ........ .... 17

C.4 Severe operating conditions 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

C.5 Shipping and short-term storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

C.6 Extended shipping and short-term storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

C.7 Recommended long-term storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

C.8 Deterioration of tape arising from exposure to adverse

environmental conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

D Severe operating conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

D.1 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

D.2 Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

D.3 Environmental performance tests for limited duration

recording under severe conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

D.3.1 Definition of severe conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

D.3.2 Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

D.3.3 Test procedure ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... .... 19

E Surface electrical resistance testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

E.1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

E.2 Test specimens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

E.3 Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

E.3.1 Electrodes for testing insulation resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

E.3.2 Electrodes for testing volume and surface resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

E.3.3 Electrode materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

E.3.4 Direct-current potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

E.3.5 Measuring equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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E.3.6 Sw itches and keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

E.4 Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

E.4.1 Conditioning of specimens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

E.4.2 Precautions in mounting specimens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

E.4.3 Method of measuring resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

E.4.4 Insulation resistance determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

E.4.5 Volume and surface resistance determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

E.4.6 Surface resistance determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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E.5 Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

F Tape abrasivity testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.2 Principle ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... ........... 31

F.3 Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.3.1 Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.3.2 Dummy head assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.3.3 Tape abrasivity meter 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.3.4 Reference tape 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.4 Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.4.1 Cleaning and measuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

F.4.2 Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

G Bibliography ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... .......... 32

 AUSTRALIAN STANDARD
Information processing systems—High Density
Digital Recording (HDDR)
Part 1:
Unrecorded magnetic tape for HDDR applications
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1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 8441 specifies requirements for
unrecorded magnetic tape designed for high density
digital recording (HD DR ) having the following
characteristics:
a) nominal thickness 25,4 µm (0,001 in);
b) longitudinal magnetic orientation;
c) coercivity 72 kA/m (900 Oe) max.
These tapes are suitable for interchange in accordance
with ISO /IEC 8441-2.
Requirements for packaging are also included.
NOTE 1 Tapes of coercivity above 32 kA/m (400 Oe) are
usually classified as high energy tapes and users should
establish compatibility with equipment used for dri ving them.
Annex A gives guidance on glass and metal-flanged
reels. Annex B gives information on the wear of re-
cording heads. Different categories of environmental
conditions and their effects on tape are dealt with in
annex C. Severe operating conditions are considered
in annex D. Surface electrical resistance testing is dealt
with in annex E. A tape abrasivity testing technique is
described in annex F. A list of bibliographical
references is given in annex G.
NOTES
2 It is recognized that archival interchange tapes, or those
produced by systems in use pri or to the publicati on of this part
of ISO/I EC 8441, may not comply wit h the requir ements
and/or recommendations herein.
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3 Vari ous tests and procedures herein refer to recording
with a.c. HF bias. In practice, certain HDDR systems do not
use bias. The use of bias in this part of ISO/IEC 8441 does
not imply that the tape so tested is in any way unsuitable for
a biasless system.
2 Normative references
The following standards contain provisions which,
through reference in this text, constitute provisions of
this part of ISO/IEC 8441. At the time of publication,
the editions indicated were valid. All standards are
subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on
this part of ISO /IEC 8441 are encouraged to investigate
the possibility of applying the most recent editions of
the standards indicated below. Members of IEC and
ISO maintain registers of currently valid International
Standards.
ISO 1184:1983, Plastics — Determination of tensile
properties of films.
ISO 1860:1986, Information processing — Precision
reels for magnetic tape used in interchange instru-
mentation applications.
3 Definitions
For the purpose of this part of ISO /IEC 8441, the fol-
lowing definitions apply.
NOTE 4 Tape speed is taken to be 3 048 m/s (120 in/s),
unless otherwise stated.
3.1 abrasivity: The propensity of a magnetic tape to
cause wear of a recording head, by the passage of the
tape over the head.
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