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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jones V Howell, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 722 ; 360 48 ;
Abstract
An arrangement and method of searching a tape at high speeds for a specific recording location with an arcuate scanner includes passing recorded tape past a scanner at a speed significantly higher than a read/write speed. Since the reading by an arcuate scanner of search information recorded at approximately a centerline of a tape is the least affected by changes in speed, compared to information recorded at the top and bottom of a tape, the search information located approximately along the centerline of the recorded tape is read. A specific recording location on the tape is then determined from the search information read.