Rewinder tape drives
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsShawn M. Nave, Lee Jesionowski, Michael Philip McIntosh
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method includes instructing performance of a data operation on a magnetic recording tape using a primary drive, wherein the primary drive rewinds the magnetic recording tape onto a spool at a first tension. The method also includes instructing transfer of the magnetic recording tape to a rewinder drive after performance of the data operation and instructing the rewinder drive to perform a low-tension rewind operation. The low-tension rewind operation includes unspooling the magnetic recording tape from the spool and rewinding the magnetic recording tape onto the spool at a second tension lower than the first tension.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- instructing performance of a data operation on a magnetic recording tape using a primary drive, wherein the primary drive rewinds the magnetic recording tape onto a spool at a first tension;
- instructing transfer of the magnetic recording tape to a rewinder drive after performance of the data operation;
- and
- instructing the rewinder drive to perform a low-tension rewind operation,
- wherein the low-tension rewind operation includes unspooling the magnetic recording tape from the spool and rewinding the magnetic recording tape onto the spool at a second tension lower than the first tension.
A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to:
- instruct, by the computer, performance of a data operation on a magnetic recording tape using a primary drive, wherein the primary drive rewinds the magnetic recording tape onto a spool at a first tension;
- instruct, by the computer, transfer of the magnetic recording tape to a rewinder drive after performance of the data operation;
- and
- instruct, by the computer, the rewinder drive to perform a low-tension rewind operation,
- wherein the low-tension rewind operation includes unspooling the magnetic recording tape from the spool and rewinding the magnetic recording tape onto the spool at a second tension lower than the first tension.
A system, comprising:
- a primary drive configured to perform data operations on magnetic recording tapes;
- a rewinder drive configured to perform a low-tension rewind on magnetic recording tapes;
- a processor in communication with the drives;
- and
- logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor, the logic being configured to:
- instruct, by the processor, performance of a data operation on a magnetic recording tape using the primary drive, wherein the primary drive rewinds the magnetic recording tape onto a spool at a first tension;
- instruct, by the processor, transfer of the magnetic recording tape to a rewinder drive after performance of the data operation;
- and
- instruct, by the processor, the rewinder drive to perform a low-tension rewind operation,
- wherein the low-tension rewind operation includes unspooling the magnetic recording tape from the spool and rewinding the magnetic recording tape onto the spool at a second tension lower than the first tension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.