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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2002
Methods and devices for recording or reading files on/from a sequential medium and sequential medium
Ronald Marcel Tol, Eindhoven, NL;
Gerrit Jan Scholl, Eindhoven, NL;
Wilhelmus Jacobus Van Gestel, Eindhoven, NL;
Steven Broeils Luitjens, Eindhoven, NL;
Ronald Marcel Tol, Eindhoven, NL;
Gerrit Jan Scholl, Eindhoven, NL;
Wilhelmus Jacobus Van Gestel, Eindhoven, NL;
Steven Broeils Luitjens, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
In a method and a device for reading and a method and a device for recording files on a sequential medium as well as the sequential medium itself, in order to enable the use of sequential write-once mediums, the file system descriptor pointing to a current version of a management information area, is recorded on a reserved track being located at the beginning of the volume. Thereby, the management information area is recorded at a location behind files being recorded onto the volume.