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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2011
Toshiyuki Shiratori, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Taguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiyuki Shiratori, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Taguchi, Yokohama, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a controller of a tape drive, when a command processor receives a command for moving to the end of data ('EOD') or the like, an operation signal output unit suspends the moving of a tape and a cartridge memory ('CM') input/output unit stores therein a state of the tape in which the moving has been omitted. Then, when the command processor receives a command for writing data in this state, the CM input/output unit writes the data to a cartridge memory. Subsequently, for example, when a head passes a proper position at which the data should be actually written to the tape, the CM input/output unit reads the data from the cartridge memory, and the channel input/output unit writes the data to the tape at the proper position.