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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Lawrence A. Hansen, Meridian, ID (US);
Paul W. Poorman, Meridian, ID (US);
Jeffrey S. Mcallister, Boise, ID (US);
Lawrence A. Hansen, Meridian, ID (US);
Paul W. Poorman, Meridian, ID (US);
Jeffrey S. McAllister, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the design and implementation of backward-compatible magnetic tape drives () that are read/write compatible with a current magnetic-tape format () as well as one or more previous magnetic-tape formats (and). Embodiments of the present invention include read/write tape-head configurations (-) and corresponding magnetic-tape-drive-component features () that allow a magnetic-tape drive to read and write magnetic tapes formatted according to different formats.