Fujitsu Corporation

Toshiyuki Kasada

Kinya Saito

Toshiya Nakajima

Naoki Hirabayashi

Keiichi Kato

In an erasing and recovering system for a data block on a magnetic tape in a magnetic tape recording and reproducing apparatus, the system includes: a detecting unit for detecting data error caused by a damaged portion on the magnetic tape by reading a data block just after the data block is written to the magnetic tape; a calculating unit for calculating the circumference of the magnetic tape including the damaged portion; an erasing unit for erasing half of the circumference including the damaged portion; and a data write unit for re-writing the same data block as the data block including the error into another half of the same circumference as the circumference including the damaged portion.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Toshiyuki Kasada