Skiving block for mitigating protruding defects from magnetic tape recording media
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRobert G. Biskeborn, Calvin S. Lo
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Abstract
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a block having multiple skiving edges along a tape bearing surface thereof, and a guide mechanism configured to set a wrap angle of a tape approaching the skiving edge. A drive mechanism is configured to cause the tape to move over the block. The block has no transducer coupled directly thereto. A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes causing a magnetic recording tape to pass over a block having a skiving edge at a wrap angle of at least one degree for burnishing the tape, wherein the block has an average hardness of at least about 9 Mohs.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a block having multiple skiving edges along a tape bearing surface thereof;
- a guide mechanism configured to set a wrap angle of a tape approaching the skiving edge;
- and
- a drive mechanism configured to cause the tape to move over the block,
- wherein the block has no transducer coupled directly thereto.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- causing a magnetic recording tape to pass over a block having a skiving edge at a wrap angle of at least one degree for burnishing the tape, wherein the block has an average hardness of at least about 9 Mohs.
A computer program product for burnishing a magnetic recording tape, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to perform a method comprising:
- causing a magnetic recording tape to pass over a block having a skiving edge at a wrap angle of at least one degree for burnishing the tape, wherein the block has an average hardness of at least about 9 Mohs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.