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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2016
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Dina Eldin, Round Rock, TX (US);
Randy M. Ortiz, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A sequential storage media system may include a head for reading or writing data to sequential storage media and a controller communicatively coupled to the head. The controller may be configured to control winding of a tape comprising sequential storage media and cleaning media between reels of a cartridge comprising the tape in order to clean a head of a sequential storage media system by passing the cleaning media over the head, after cleaning the head of the sequential storage media system, monitor a bit error rate of input/output communication between the head and the sequential storage media, and repeat the cleaning and the monitoring steps responsive to the bit error rate exceeding a threshold.