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7210 025 7210-025 External DVD-RAM
The 7210-025 External DVD-RAM is a DVD-RAM device that attaches to the #2718 PCI Magnetic Media
Controller, #2768 PCI Magnetic Media Controller, #5702 PCI-X Ultra Tape Controller or #5705 PCI-X
Tape/DASD Controller. The 7210-025 can be used as an alternate IPL device but is not supported by the
Boot Manager.
The media capacity for a DVD-RAM cartridge is 4.7 GB per side versus 650 MB on CD-ROM. Its highest
capacity can be as much as 9.4 GB per side. The 7210-025 drive reads CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW,
DVD-ROM, and DVD-RAM media. It can write only DVD-RAM media. It supports writing of 4.7 GB bare
media or 2.6 GB and 4.7 Gb cartridge media. OS/400 V5R2 requires PTF MF32271 to support the writing
of 4.7 GB or 9.4 GB bare media. The speed at which it transfers data from the media is roughly equivalent
to a 24X speed CD-ROM, or about 3.6 Mbps average sustained. Note that performance values specified
are dependent on several variables and cannot be achieved in all environments. When the data is
compressed in a 3:1 compression ratio (the average for iSeries servers), a single DVD-RAM cartridge can
save about 13 GB of data in an unattended save mode.
See 9.5.4, “#5712, #5715, #5702, #5705, #2718, and #2768 PCI Magnetic Media Controller: Device
cabling rules” on page 370, for a description of the supported attachment configurations.
Minimum operating system level: OS/400 V5R1
6x0, Sx0,
720, 730,
740, 170,
250, 270,
SB2, SB3,
820, 830,
840
7210-030 7210-030 External DVD-RAM
The 7210-030 External DVD-RAM is a DVD-RAM device that attaches to the #2768 PCI Magnetic Media
Controller, #5702 PCI-X Ultra Tape Controller, #5705 PCI-X Tape/DASD Controller or #5712 PCI-X
Tape/DASD Controller. The 7210-030 can be used as an alternate IPL device but is not supported by the
Boot Manager.
The media capacity for a DVD-RAM cartridge is 4.7 GB per side versus 650 MB on CD-ROM. Its highest
capacity can be as much as 9.4 GB per side. The 7210-030 drive reads multi-session disks, CD-recordable
disks and CD-RW disks. For iSeries servers, it can only write to DVD-RAM media. The 7210-030 only
supports the writing of 4.7 GB bare media. With iSeries servers it can only write to DVD-RAM media. The
speed at which it transfers data from the media is roughly equivalent to a 24X speed CD-ROM, or about
3.6 Mbps average sustained. Note that performance values specified depend on several variables and
cannot be achieved in all environments. When the data is compressed in a 3:1 compression ratio (the
average for iSeries servers), a single DVD-RAM cartridge can save about 13 GB of data in an unattended
save mode. The 7210-030 supports Ultra-3 SCSI LVD attachment to iSeries servers.
See 9.5.4, “#5712, #5715, #5702, #5705, #2718, and #2768 PCI Magnetic Media Controller: Device
cabling rules” on page 370, for a description of the supported attachment configurations.
Minimum operating system level: OS/400 V5R2
270, 820,
830, 840
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Machine Description 9406
models
