摘要:
Provided is a read signal offset during write verify which prevents the false detection of amorphous pips from an optical disk recorder. Amorphous pips are the signals caused by the drop in reflection from an optical disk after the laser has caused the surface material to change from its crystalline state to an amorphous state, but not to a hole. When a hole is not formed in the material, the amorphous material later recrystallizes, the drop in reflection no longer occurs and information is lost.
摘要:
An optical data recording device for focusing a laser beam (52) on a recording medium (60) for storing and reading out information therefrom. The device is characterized by using a high efficiency holographic grating (30) as a polarization beam splitter. In a forward collimated light path the holographic grating diffracts a light beam from a laser (54) on an objective lens. The beam is reflected from the surface towards the recording medium (60) and transmitted through the grating onto a light detector (64). The grating (30) further provides for correcting a typical elliptical light beam shape from the laser (54) to a circular beam shape as well as for correcting the astigmatism typically found in the wave fronts emitting from a laser diode.
摘要:
A high density code comprises holes made in an optical medium to represent one state and the absence of a hole represents the complementary state and having a null in the frequency spectrum upon recording or reading whereby the optical medium may include a pre-recorded clock signal for assisting in the writing and reading of the data. The high density code comprises a symbol having nine positions equally spaced within the symbol for encoding eight binary bits of data; a constraint that exactly two holes and only two holes appear within each symbol, a constraint that for each hole appearing in an even position, there appears a hole at an odd position, a constraint that the ninth position never has a hole, and a constraint that at least two positions appear between adjacent holes or between adjacent holes and groups of holes or between adjacent groups of holes.
摘要:
A Reed-Solomon error correcting apparatus is programmable to perform several distinct error correction functions, namely, encoding, error detection, syndrome generation, burst error trapping, and Chien searching. The apparatus essentially comprises a set of two t registers (30) where t is the number of errors to be corrected, a set of two t exclusive-OR gates (32), a set oftwottop multiplexers (34), a set of two t bottom multiplexers (36), a first set of two t Galois Field multipliers (S 0 -S 19 ), a second set of two Galois Field multipliers (G 0 -G 19 ), a feedback multiplexer (42), a lead exclusive-OR gate (40), an AND gate (46), t-1 ordered Chien exclusive-OR gates (52) and a controller (12).
摘要:
A transport apparatus for receiving and operating upon a tape cartridge (2) including a web of tape (5) disposed on a supply reel (6) and having a free end (11) engaged by a leader block (10), the said transport apparatus comprising a take-up reel (21) for receiving said leader block (10) and a leader block loading means (20) for loading the leader block (10) in the said take-up reel (21) characterised in that the leader block loading means (20) comprises a linkage (36) for engaging a slot (12) of said leader block (10) and for delivering said engaged leader block (10) to the take-up reel (21), the said leader block loading means (20) being operatively associated with said take-up reel (21).
摘要:
Disclosed is an apparatus for detection of write protect data written on an optical disk by simultaneously reading the data during writing using differential detection and disabling further writing if write protect data is present. The write protect data is the same format as other data written on the optical disk and is written as the first byte of data on all data fields. The data is written in a fixed-block format defining a symbol having a predetermined number of symbol positions and a predetermined number of holes which may be written at the symbol positions, an equal number of holes at odd and at even positions. The write protect symbol has holes written at symbol position numbers two and five. During the writing of a write protect symbol, the laser is operated at read power before it is operated at write power and a signal associated with the hole associated power of the reflected beam is sampled at position number eight of the previous symbol and at position number one of the write protect symbol. The hole associated power at position number one will be significant if a hole was previously written at position number two. The read signals at positions one and eight are compared to each other. If the position number one signal exceeds that at number eight by a predetermined differential, a hole was previously recorded at position number two, indicating the presence of a previously written write protect byte of data.
摘要:
Provided is a read signal offset during write verify which prevents the false detection of amorphous pips from an optical disk recorder. Amorphous pips are the signals caused by the drop in reflection from an optical disk after the laser has caused the surface material to change from its crystalline state to an amorphous state, but not to a hole. When a hole is not formed in the material, the amorphous material later recrystallizes, the drop in reflection no longer occurs and information is lost.
摘要:
A Reed-Solomon error correcting apparatus is programmable to perform several distinct error correction functions, namely, encoding, error detection, syndrome generation, burst error trapping, and Chien searching. The apparatus essentially comprises a set of two t registers (30) where t is the number of errors to be corrected, a set of two t exclusive-OR gates (32), a set oftwottop multiplexers (34), a set of two t bottom multiplexers (36), a first set of two t Galois Field multipliers (S 0 -S 19 ), a second set of two Galois Field multipliers (G 0 -G 19 ), a feedback multiplexer (42), a lead exclusive-OR gate (40), an AND gate (46), t-1 ordered Chien exclusive-OR gates (52) and a controller (12).
摘要:
There is provided a transport apparatus for receiving and operating upon a tape cartridge (2) including a web of tape (5) disposed on a supply reel (6) and having a free end (11) engaged by a leader block (10). The leader block has an engagment slot (17) open to a rear edge of the tape cartridge, an engagment pin (16) engages the slot of the leader block for delivery of the tape to a take-up reel (21) . The tape path is such that the engagment pin (16) is remote from the rear edge (14) of the tape cartridge (2).