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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Robert G. Biskeborn, Hollister, CA (US);
W. Stanley Czarnecki, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Calvin S. Lo, Saratoga, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method according to one embodiment includes running a magnetic recording tape over a tape bearing surface of a module having at least one edge, detecting signals from the tape at differing wrap angles for estimating a height of tenting of the tape above a transducer at each of the wrap angles, and selecting a wrap angle to provide about a predefined height of tenting of the tape above the transducer. A resulting tent of the moving magnetic recording tape extends from the edge of the module closest thereto to a minima with a tent apex therebetween, where the minima is at a first point of closest approach of the moving magnetic recording tape to the tape bearing surface of the module nearest the tent apex.