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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2004
Applicant:
Russell Allen Bauer, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Russell Allen Bauer, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Certance LLC, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 15/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus to quickly and correctly re-initialize a tape drive mechanism after power loss employs a non-volatile memory to store functional state data during normal operation of the tape drive mechanism. After a power loss, the functional state data is read from the non-volatile memory so that the tape drive mechanism can be properly re-initialized based on the recovered functional state data.