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Apparatus and method for writing data on a tape medium

  • US 8,130,460 B2
  • Filed: 08/04/2009
  • Issued: 03/06/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus comprising:

  • a write unit configured for writing first data accumulated in a buffer on a tape medium in a first position extending over a first track and an area adjacent to the first track, writing second data accumulated in the buffer on the tape medium in a second position extending over a second track and an area adjacent to the second track, and writing the first data and the second data in a third position extending over a third track and an area adjacent to the third track; and

    a processing unit configured for preventing the first data written in the first position from being overwritten with the first data written in the third position by, before the first data is written in the third position, determining whether the first data written in the first position is to be overwritten with the first data written in the third position.

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