Sony Corporation

Hironori Miyoshi

Katsumi Ikeda

Masaki Yamada

Osamu Nakamura

Yoshihisa Takayama

Masaki Yoshida

Hideto Suzuki

Tatsuya Kato

When a tape cassette is mounted, a tape drive apparatus judges whether the tape cassette is of a first mode (normal mode) or a second mode (multi-partition mode) based on one or both of management information that is read out from the magnetic tape and management information that is read out from a memory (MIC) incorporated in the tape cassette. The tape drive apparatus then an performs an operation setting in accordance with the mode thus judged.

Tape drive apparatus for judging an operational mode of the tape based on detected tape management information

A data recording device and a data reproducing device for appending data in a data storage device without requiring that data be read up to the last group directly before an end-of-data area. A system controller controls a recording data processing system, a data recording/reproducing unit, a playback data processing system and a tracking control system for recording the identification information of the last group in an end-of-data (EOD) area and for reading out the identification information of the last group from the EOD area.

Data recording apparatus and data reproducing apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hironori Miyoshi