Dual channel helical scan recorder

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Patent

CA 2066176

A dual channel helical scan recording system (30) includes a rotating drum (36) having sets of heads (W1, W2, R1, R2) mounted on its peripheral surface (56). A set of write heads (W1, W2) is situated on an opposite side of the drum (36) from a set of read heads (R1, R2). The write heads (W1, W2) simultaneously write two adjacent tracks (T1, T2), which are read for verifica- tion 180 degrees later by corresponding read heads (R1, R2). The heads (W1, W2, R1, R2) are strategically mounted on the drum (36) with respect to angular and axial placement, and have selected head widths and azimuthal angles. Should a block of data (317) written to tape (32) be determined, during readback, to be a bad block, that bad block is subsequently rewritten on the tape (32) in the course of writing good blocks and amongst other good blocks. The rewritten block is recorded at a row position on the tape which is sufficiently displaced from the row position of a previous writing to avoid media defects occurring on the tape. In addition, a block written by a first write head (W1) and perceived as having been written as a bad block must be written by a sec- ond write head (W2) before that block is rewritten a predetermined number of times.

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