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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Steven R. Bentley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Roy D. Cideciyan, Rueschlikon, CH;
Simeon Furrer, Altdorf, CH;
Keisuke Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a tape drive includes a magnetic head having a plurality of read sensors, each read sensor being configured to read data simultaneously, a controller, and logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller. The logic is configured to read, using the plurality of read sensors, encoded data from a plurality of tracks of a magnetic tape medium simultaneously. The logic is also configured to perform track-dependent erasure decoding on the encoded data based on detection of one or more time-varying signal quality issues associated with at least one of the plurality of tracks read simultaneously from the magnetic tape medium.