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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2010
Applicants:
Jonathan Peter Buckingham, Bristol, GB;
Neil Thomas Hutchon, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Jonathan Peter Buckingham, Bristol, GB;
Neil Thomas Hutchon, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 27/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for writing data to a tape is disclosed. A plurality of data tracks are written onto a tape simultaneously. Any data tracks written to the tape that needs to be rewritten are identified. Each re-write unit that contains a data track that needs to be re-written is accumulated. The accumulated rewrite units are written to tape when a full set of rewrite units have been accumulated.