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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Steven R. Bentley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Roy D. Cideciyan, Rueschlikon, CH;
Simeon Furrer, Altdorf, CH;
Keisuke Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a controller and logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller. The logic is configured to perform track-dependent erasure decoding on encoded data based on detection of one or more time-varying signal quality issues associated with at least one of a plurality of tracks read simultaneously from a data storage medium. In another embodiment, a method includes determining, by a magnetic tape drive, track signal quality reliability for a plurality of tracks read simultaneously from a magnetic tape medium. In addition, the method includes performing, by the magnetic tape drive, track-dependent erasure decoding on encoded data based on detection of one or more time-varying signal quality issues associated with at least one of the plurality of simultaneously-read tracks.