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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Toshiyuki Shiratori, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Taguchi, Yokohama, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a head, a controller coupled to the head, and logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller. The logic is configured to receive a series of commands, the series of commands including mixed read, overwrite, and append write commands, cause reading of data from a specified position of a tape using the head and storing the data in a buffer in response to a read command; and cause writing of data stored in the buffer starting from an appended data end position of the tape in response to an append write command.