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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Takeshi Nohta, Tsukuba, JP;
Eiji Tosaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 19/04 (2006.01); G11B 19/28 (2006.01); G11B 5/008 (2006.01); G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 20/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 19/28 (2013.01); G11B 5/00813 (2013.01); G11B 5/09 (2013.01); G11B 19/04 (2013.01); G11B 20/10 (2013.01); G11B 20/10527 (2013.01); G11B 2020/10981 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, and apparatus configured to perform such method, according to various embodiments, includes writing data stored in a buffer onto a recording medium using a write head in a first round of writing. An interval marker is written on the recording medium in the first round of writing when the buffer is empty. Next data is written onto the recording medium after the interval marker in the first round of writing. Data is written in an area of the interval marker in a second round of writing performed subsequent to the first round.