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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1995
Per Olaf Pahr, Lier, NO;
Tandberg Data Storage A/S, Oslo, NO;
Abstract
A magnetic head assembly, for use in a tape drive wherein a tape is moved past the head assembly in a longitudinal direction and the tape exhibits transverse tape movement cross-correlated by obtaining repeated measurements at the same longitudinal position of the tape, and wherein a minimum longitudinal distance exists for which the cross-correlation is maintained, has a carrier with first and second gap and coil arrangements disposed on the carrier. The respective gaps in the first and second gap and coil arrangements are disposed on the carrier separated by a spacing which is less than the aforementioned minimum longitudinal distance. If one gap and coil arrangement is used as a write arrangement, and the other gap and coil arrangement is used as a read arrangement for verifying the writing of data by the write arrangement, tracking errors are minimized, or substantially avoided, because the write and read arrangements are so close to each other as to be effectively at the same position in the context of the cross-correlated transverse tape movements.