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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2019
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Daniel James Winarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nhan Xuan Bui, Tucson, AZ (US);
Lee Curtis Randall, Tucson, AZ (US);
Richard Bradshaw, Tucson, AZ (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/55 (2006.01); G11B 5/588 (2006.01); G11B 5/592 (2006.01); G11B 5/78 (2006.01); G11B 20/12 (2006.01); G11B 5/53 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/5928 (2013.01); G11B 5/534 (2013.01); G11B 5/5508 (2013.01); G11B 5/78 (2013.01); G11B 20/1202 (2013.01); G11B 2020/1281 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tape drive may arrange timing-based-servo marks into a timing-based-servo pattern. The timing-based-servo pattern may be at least one M-pattern. The tape drive may select the at least one M-pattern. The tape drive may match at least two timing-based-servo marks in the at least one M-pattern. The tape drive may determine, from the matching, whether an alignment of the at least two timing-based-servo marks is demonstrative of tape-creep.