Bounding defective regions of a tape storage medium

Details Bounding defective regions of a tape storage medium Bounding defective regions of a tape storage medium

2007-09-11

2007-09-11

Bragdon, Reginald (Department: 2189)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Specific memory composition

C711S156000, C714S771000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10923443

ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for storing data on a tape medium and coping with defective regions on the tape medium are provided. The method includes: writing a plurality of envelopes of data onto the tape medium, each envelope of data comprising a plurality of blocks of data; detecting a defective region of the tape medium; writing a boundary start field after the defective region, the boundary start field indicating that the defective region has been passed; and writing a boundary end field before the defective region of the tape medium, the boundary end field indicating that the defective region follows the boundary end field.

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