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AssigneeBenchmark Storage Innovations, Inc.
InventorsJames Zweighaft, Clark Milo Janssen, Timothy Joe Kindvall
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A staggered calibration track comprising a plurality of calibration tracks for use positioning a tape drive tape head for reading and writing data to and from multiple data tracks. The staggered calibration track is written by positioning the write head to a predetermined location and moving the tape media horizontally as the vertical position of the tape head is incremented in a stepwise alignment. Locating one of the plurality of calibration tracks is accomplished by positioning the read head at the predetermined location corresponding to the edge of the particular calibration track and moving the tape media horizontally as the read head output is recorded. The particular calibration tracks vertical position is derived using the average read head output.
A method for a tape drive for writing a forward staggered calibration track on a length of magnetic tape media, the forward staggered calibration track comprising a plurality of calibration track sections, each one of the plurality of calibration sections horizontally offset from each other one of the plurality of calibration track sections, wherein each one of the plurality of calibration track section corresponds to one or more of a plurality of forward data tracks, the method comprising:
A calibration method for use by a tape drive for locating a one of a plurality of forward/reverse data tracks on a magnetic tape media having a forward and a reverse staggered calibration track located on a length of the magnetic tape media, wherein the forward and the reverse staggered calibration tracks each comprises a plurality of calibration tracks, each one of the plurality of calibration tracks corresponding to one or more of the plurality of forward/reverse data tracks, the method comprising:
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