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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
May. 13, 2008
William J. Kabelac, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Barry M. Trager, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Shmuel Winograd, Scarsdale, NY (US);
William J. Kabelac, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Barry M. Trager, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Shmuel Winograd, Scarsdale, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention includes a method for longitudinal position (LPOS) detection in a magnetic tape storage system for storing data upon linear tape open (LTO) magnetic storage tape, which data includes odd and even 36-bit LPOS words with error correcting ability. The method includes steps of encoding positional information onto the magnetic storage tape within the odd and even 36-bit LPOS words using each LPOS word's 8-bit sync mark field, Sy, and six of each LPOS word's 4-bit symbol fields, L, L, LL, L, and L, wherein 6 of 24 total bits comprising the encoded 8-bit sync mark field: Sy, and six 4-bit symbol fields: L, L, LL, L, and Lare utilized as parity bits, operating the magnetic tape storage system by passing the LTO magnetic storage tape encoded with the odd and even LPOS words with error correcting ability longitudinally across a servo reader/writer at a known speed, decoding the encoded positional information by reading either two words sequentially or two words simultaneously, the simultaneous reading requiring that the LPOS words include servo band numbers and detecting and correcting both ambiguous bits and single erroneous bit errors.