Writing synchronized data to magnetic tape

Details Writing synchronized data to magnetic tape Writing synchronized data to magnetic tape

2007-05-15

2007-05-15

Tran, Thang V. (Department: 2627)

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

General processing of a digital signal

Data in specific format

C360S074100, C710S006000, C710S052000, C710S055000

Reexamination Certificate

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11041699

ABSTRACT:
Synchronized data is written to magnetic tape while reducing the number of backhitches. A controller detects a pattern of synchronizing events for received data records to be written to tape; writes each transaction of data records to the magnetic; tape; accumulates the synchronized transactions in a buffer; and subsequently recursively writes the accumulated transactions of data records from the buffer to the magnetic tape in a sequence. A single backhitch may be employed to place the recursively written accumulated data records following the preceding data, maximizing performance and capacity.

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