Information recording and reproducing apparatus

Details Information recording and reproducing apparatus Information recording and reproducing apparatus

1997-05-22

2000-03-28

Tran, Thang V.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Automatic control of a recorder mechanism

360132, G11B 1518

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060439483

ABSTRACT:
An information recording/reproducing apparatus including an identifying portion for identifying a loaded cassette as a first type tape cassette or a second type tape cassette, the loaded cassette having a tape-shaped record medium in a cartridge, the first type tape cassette having a non-volatile memory in the cartridge, the second type tape cassette not having a non-volatile memory in the cartridge, an initializing portion for initializing at least the non-volatile memory when the loaded cassette is the first type tape cassette and for initializing the tape-shaped record medium when the loaded cassette is the second tape cassette, and a recording/reproducing portion for recording/reproducing data to/from the tape-shaped record medium in the tape cassette, the tape-shaped record medium being initialized by the initializing portion.

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patent: 5726817 (1998-03-01), Oguro et al.
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