BS ISO/IEC 10090:1992

This standard BS ISO/IEC 10090:1992 Information technology. 90 mm optical disk cartridges, rewritable and read only, for data interchange is classified in these ICS categories:

• 35.220.30 Optical storage devices

This International Standard specifies

• the conditions for conformance testing and the Reference Drive;

• the mechanical and physical 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;

• the characteristics of the embossed information on the disk;

• the magneto-optical characteristics of the disk, enabling processing systems to write data onto the disk;

• the minimum quality of user-written data on the disk, enabling data processing systems to read data from the disk.