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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Atsushi Abe, Ebina, JP;
Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Itagaki, Yokohama, JP;
Tohru Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Mitsuma, Machida, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a tape head controller, tape drive, and method for simultaneously writing data to two sets of channels to increase channel transfer rate. A tape head module having a first and second sets of read/write elements is positioned to have the first set of read/write elements on a selected wrap number in a first n channels in a first data band and the second set of read/write elements on the selected wrap number in a second n channels in a second data band. The first set and the second set of read/write elements are controlled to simultaneously perform read/write operations with respect to the selected wrap number in the first n channels and the second n channels, respectively. A combination of the first n channels and the second n channels is presented as a 2n-channel layout with a plurality of wraps in each of n channels.