Tape storage device and control method using quality information
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsNaoaki Tokai, Hirokazu Hashimoto, Yosuke Sumiya
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Abstract
A recording control device reads tape quality information recorded on an RFID tag included in a recording tape cartridge, acquires drive quality information indicating quality of each of a plurality of tape drives that are loading targets of the recording tape cartridge, and prohibits reading or writing of data from or to the recording tape using the tape drive in a combination of which the quality is lower than predetermined quality among combinations of quality of the recording tape cartridge indicated by the read tape quality information and quality of each of the plurality of tape drives indicated by the acquired drive quality information.
Claims5
A recording control device comprising:
- a reading unit that reads tape quality information indicating quality of a recording tape cartridge recorded on a recording medium included in the recording tape cartridge;
- an acquisition unit that acquires drive quality information indicating quality of each of a plurality of tape drives that are loading targets of the recording tape cartridge;
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- a prohibition unit that prohibits reading or writing of data from or to the recording tape using the tape drive, in a case in which a combination of a recording tape cartridge quality value, indicated by the tape quality information and including a position error signal level, and a tape drive quality value, indicated by the drive quality information, is lower than a predetermined value.
A recording control method comprising:
- reading tape quality information indicating quality of a recording tape cartridge recorded on a recording medium included in the recording tape cartridge;
- acquiring drive quality information indicating quality of each of a plurality of tape drives that are loading targets of the recording tape cartridge;
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- prohibiting reading or writing of data from or to the recording tape using the tape drive, in a case in which a combination of a recording tape cartridge quality value, indicated by the tape quality information and including a position error signal level, and a tape drive quality value, indicated by the drive quality information, is lower than a predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.