Error detection and correction having one data format recordable

Details Error detection and correction having one data format recordable Error detection and correction having one data format recordable

1993-06-14

1994-11-29

Ruggiero, Joseph

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360 47, 360 53, H03M 1300, G11B 509

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053696522

ABSTRACT:
A data storage system has error detecting and correcting system having three error codes. The data are arranged logically as a three-dimensional array consisting of a plurality of logically rectangular blocks of data. Each block of data has columns and rows of data. A first error code that corrects errors creates a first redundancy in each of the columns. A like-positioned block row of data in each of the blocks constitutes an array row of data. The array rows are grouped into sets of array rows, the number of array rows in each set vary inversely with a number of tracks of a record medium that concurrently receive the data for recording. Each set of data are recorded serially by bit in respective tracks of the tape record medium. Before recording, the block rows are logically rotated (end-around shifted) within each of the array rows. The block row shifting is different for each set such that the lateral alignment of data are changed for avoiding medium defects extending transversely of the tracks from creating excessive errors in any column of data. After the block row shifting, a second error code is applied to each block row while a third error code is applied to each array row. Readback is a reversal of the writing process. Error pointers are generated from the second and third redundancies as well as from signal and data format errors.

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