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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2023
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Robert G. Biskeborn, Hollister, CA (US);
David J. Seagle, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to a tape and a tape drive comprising a tape head and a controller. The tape drive comprises a tape comprising three data bands and four servo tracks, a servo track of the four servo tracks being disposed between adjacent data bands, one or more tape head modules, each tape head module comprising a plurality of data elements and two or more servo element pairs, and a controller configured to control each of the one or more tape head modules to write data to and read data from the tape. Each data band has a width of about one-third a total width of the tape, such as about 3800 μm to about 3900 μm. The three data bands and four servo tracks span the total width of the tape.