Biggers & Ohanian, LLP
Tape recorder and tape recording that increases empty tape area without loss of necessary data
Provided is a tape recorder that has a tape including at least one partition and that controls access to the tape. The tape recorder includes: means for identifying a position of data on the tape; means for sequentially reading necessary data areas in the data; means for sequentially copying the necessary data areas to the beginning of an empty area on the tape; means for creating a continuous front empty area formed of unnecessary data areas and copy source areas of the necessary data areas on the tape; and means for moving a beginning of the partition (BOP) to a position immediately after the front empty area and for updating the position information on the beginning of the partition.
International Business Machines Corporation
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inventional additional inventional
Hiroshi Terue Setsuko Yutaka
Itagaki Watanabe Masuda Oishi