Defines: - the conditions for conformance testing and the Reference Drive; - the environments in which the cartridges are to be operated and stored; - the mechanical, physical and dimensional characteristics of the cartridge, so as to provide mechanical interchangeability between data processing systems; - the format of the information on the disk, both embossed and user-written, including the physical disposition of the tracks and sectors, the error correction codes, the modulation methods used; - the characteristics of the embossed information on the disk; - the magneto-optical charactenstics of the disk. enabling processing systems to write data onto the disk; and - the minimum quality of user-written data on the disk, enabling data processing systems to read data from the disk.

ISO/IEC 13842:1995 - Similar