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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRobert Biskeborn, Hoodin Hamidi, Gary Decad, Edwin Ralph Childers
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An apparatus, in accordance with one approach, includes a receiving area configured to receive a plurality of tape spool pairs. A drive mechanism is configured to selectively drive the tape spool pairs. A magnetic head configured to perform data operations on magnetic recording tapes of the tape spool pairs is also present. A positioning mechanism is configured to selectively align the magnetic head to a selected one of the tape spool pairs. An engagement mechanism is configured to create a relative movement between the magnetic head and the magnetic recording tape of the selected tape spool pair for engaging the magnetic recording tape with the magnetic head. A controller is configured to instruct the drive mechanism to drive the selected tape spool pair during performance of data operations on the selected tape spool pair, and to instruct the drive mechanism to drive a second tape spool pair for performing a second operation on the second tape spool pair while the data operations are being performed.
An apparatus, comprising:
A method, comprising:
A computer program product for performing data operations on magnetic recording tape, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by an apparatus to cause the apparatus to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.