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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2012
James M. Karp, Tucson, AZ (US);
Takashi Katagiri, Yokohama, JP;
Yuhko Mori, Kanagawa-pref, JP;
Yutaka Oishi, Kawasaki, JP;
James M. Karp, Tucson, AZ (US);
Takashi Katagiri, Yokohama, JP;
Yuhko Mori, Kanagawa-pref, JP;
Yutaka Oishi, Kawasaki, JP;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one general embodiment, a tape drive system includes: a read channel; a write channel; logic configured to receiving a request for a write operation to be performed in a tape drive; logic configured to determine an optimum a write procedure in response to receiving the request, the determining being based on expected writing times of each of a plurality of write procedures and an expected transaction size of a next write operation; and logic configured to invoke the determined optimum write procedure in response to determining the optimum write procedure.