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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2012
Stephen V. Deckers, Eagle, ID (US);
Nigel Ronald Evans, Bristol, GB;
Robert Morling, Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A tape drive apparatus is for a tape medium having a magnetic segment for magnetically transducing information and an identification segment carrying a medium identification pattern and a segment identification pattern. The tape drive apparatus has a data transfer apparatus configured to transfer data between the tape medium and the tape drive apparatus, a reader configured to read a signal representative of the identification segment, a detector configured to detect the segment identification pattern in the signal, and a decoder configured to decode the medium identification pattern in response to the detection of the segment identification pattern.