Robust LPOS detection with predictor and bit verifier

Details Robust LPOS detection with predictor and bit verifier Robust LPOS detection with predictor and bit verifier

2008-01-28

2009-10-20

Wong, K. (Department: 2627)

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

General processing of a digital signal

Address coding

C360S053000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07605992

ABSTRACT:
A tape drive system which includes the ability to reliably reproduce LPOS information even if both of the servo channels of the tape drive system could not detect the LPOS information due to defects. The system recognizes that an LPOS sequence is sequentially incremented by one if a tape is moving in a forward direction and decremented by one if the tape is moving in a backward direction. This sequential property of the LPOS information lends itself to LPOS prediction, where the LPOS prediction is the previous LPOS value plus one if the tape is moving forward and the previous LPOS value minus one if the tape is moving backward. Even if the LPOS words from the two servo channels are both bad, but not all of the bits in the LPOS word are bad. The system uses the remaining good bits from the two servo channels to verify all of the bits of the LPOS prediction word.

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