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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
May. 29, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 15/44 (2006.01); G11B 5/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 15/444 (2013.01); G11B 5/00813 (2013.01); G11B 15/442 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus, computer readable medium device, and method for controlling transportation of a tape medium. A determination is made whether to execute a backhitch operation in response to writing a data set to tape from the buffer. If not, a determination is made whether a transaction size at which data is transferred from the buffer to the tape is less than a buffer size. If so, then a determination is made of a a new speed and whether a current speed is different from the determined new speed. If so, then a backhitch is initiated.