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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2011
William J. Kabelac, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
William J. Kabelac, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A sequential data storage medium, such as for example and without limitation a magnetic tape, comprising a sequence of plurality of servo patterns encoded therein, which provide lateral position information and LPOS information. Each servo pattern comprises a first burst comprising a first pulse, a second pulse, a third pulse, a fourth pulse and a fifth pulse and a second burst comprising a sixth pulse, a seventh pulse, an eighth pulse, a ninth pulse and a tenth pulse. The widths of the plurality of pulses, in combination with the spacings between the plurality of pulses, encode two bits of data.