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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1997
Steven F. Hartung, Boulder, CO (US);
John M. Contreras, late of Longmont, CO (US);
Exabyte Corporation, Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
A magnetic tape (,) is formatted to be interchangeably usable by a plurality of types of devices, including an audio/visual recording/reproducing device (,), a random access recording/reproducing device (,), and a sequential access recording/reproducing device (,). The tape has frames (,) of a plurality of frame types, including control frames and user frames. Each frame has an AUX data structure (,) wherein resides a field which indicates the frame type of the frame. Selected ones of a plurality of control tables or frames (,) are present on the tape in accordance with the type of data recorded on the tape (e.g., audio/visual data and non-audio/visual data) and the particular types of devices which are to utilize the tape. The user frames of the tape have a field in the AUX data structure which specifies the nature of the data therein, e.g., as general purpose data or audio/visual data. The tape has a permanently embedded servo format whereby each of the frames are hard sectored with a permanent physical relationship to the tape.