摘要:
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a controller configured to control writing operations to a magnetic recording tape. The apparatus further includes logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller for causing the controller to write user data to the magnetic recording tape in a user data area of the magnetic recording tape. Furthermore, the logic is integrated with and/or executable by the controller for causing the controller to create a housekeeping data set (HKDS) that includes location information for the user data written in the user data area, and write several copies of the HKDS in a non-user data area of the magnetic recording tape.
摘要:
A data storage device testing system may be configured with at least a test slot, a loader assembly, and an exchange assembly. The loader assembly can be positioned to respectively engage and disengage a test deck with the test slot. The exchange assembly may be configured to open an access port portion of the test deck and subsequently replace a tested data storage component housed within the first test deck with an untested data storage component.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for detecting tightness of a pick-up head, and a method and apparatus for controlling the moving of the pick-up head are disclosed. The method for detecting the tightness of the pick-up head includes moving the pick-up head to an inner area of the disc reading device when then disc reading device is powered on, moving the pick-up head to an outer area of the disc reading device within a predetermined time period, moving the pick-up head from the outer area of the disc reading device to the inner area at a constant speed by a first fixed force, and recording the moving duration for moving the pick-up head from the outer area of the disc reading device to the inner area at the constant speed.
摘要:
In order to realize a correction for changes in the reproduction loudness at low frequencies in a downmix-arrangement, a mixing arrangement is proposed for mixing at least two audio signals, which mixing arrangement is provided with a first unit (104) for deriving a first power signal, which is a measure for the power of the first audio signal, a second unit (105) for deriving a second power signal, which is a measure for the power of the second audio signal, a cross-correlation unit (103) for deriving a cross-correlation signal, which is a measure for a cross-correlation between the first and the second audio signal, a unit (106) for deriving multiplication parameters from the first and second power signals and the cross-correlation signal, and a multiplication and combination unit (107) for carrying out a signal processing on the first and second audio signals and combining them. The unit (106) for deriving the multiplication parameters is provided with a combination unit (110) for deriving a combination signal which is a measure for a combination of the first and second power signals and the cross-correlation signal, and is provided with a scaling unit (109) for scaling one of the signals in the unit for deriving the multiplication parameters with a scaling signal. The scaling signal (D[k]) has a frequency characteristic which is a substantially constant below a first frequency value (kL), is increasing between the first frequency value (kL) and a second higher frequency value (kU) and is again substantially constant above the second frequency value. The unit (106) for deriving the multiplication parameters is further adapted to derive a single multiplication parameter m[k]) from the combination signal, and the multiplications and combination unit (107) is adapted to carry out a signal processing on the first and second audio signals which is equivalent to multiplying the first and second audio signals with this single multiplication parameter, and combining the so multiplied first and second audio signals.
摘要:
A storage library is described including a first tape drive that is identified as a target tape drive to a host via a first address and a second tape drive that is masked from being identified by the host. The storage library further includes a controller that is linked with a switch system that shifts the first address to the second tape drive, from the first tape drive, such that after the shift, the second drive is identified as the target drive to the host and the first tape drive is masked from being identified by the host.
摘要:
An optical disc playback device is capable of being transitioned to a sleep mode in consideration of an optical disc status or an optical disc drive device status. An optical disc playback apparatus includes a main controller to transmit a sleep mode transition command to an optical disc drive device, and an optical disc drive device controller to check either a status of an optical disc or a status of the optical disc drive device when the sleep mode transition command is transmitted to the optical disc drive device, and to determine whether to perform transition to the sleep mode in response to the optical disc status or the optical disc drive device status.
摘要:
The present invention provides an optical disc apparatus that changes the number of revolutions of an optical disc on sensing resonance. The optical disc apparatus of the present invention performs both the operation of writing data on the optical disc 10 and the operation of reading data that is stored on the disc 10. The apparatus includes: a motor 12 for rotating the disc 10; an optical pickup 14, which irradiates the disc 10 with a light beam and detects the light reflected from the disc 10; an evaluation section 16 for obtaining an indicative parameter of the distortion of a signal waveform representing the light reflected from a data stored part on the disc 10 while the disc 10 is being rotated by the motor 12; and a control section 18 for changing the number of revolutions of the disc 10 per unit time if a variation in the indicative parameter of the distortion per rotation of the disc 10 exceeds a threshold value while the disc 10 is being rotated by the motor 12.
摘要:
An optical disc is rotated at no more than 600 revolutions per minute (RPM) using a spindle motor of an optical disc device (602). One or more input signals are received from one or more sensors disposed within the optical disc device (604). The sensors are responsive to rotation of the optical disc. Virtual spoke signals are generated based on the input signals received from the sensors (606). The optical disc is positionally controlled based on the virtual spoke signals generated, as the optical disc rotates at no more than 600 RPM (612). The virtual spoke signals correspond to actual, physical spokes that would otherwise have to be present on the optical disc to positionally control the optical disc as the optical disc rotates at no more than 600 RPM.
摘要:
A first light source 1a emits a first light flux with a first wavelength. A second light source 1b emits a second light flux with a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength and a third light flux with a third wavelength that is different from the first wavelength and the second wavelength. A collimator lens 6, a first objective lens 9, and a second objective lens 10 collect the first to third light fluxes as converged light on an optical disc. A first composite photodetector 13 detects the reflected light fluxes from the optical disc. The first composite photodetector 13 includes a first quartered light-receiving unit 13a that receives a light flux obtained by reflection of at least one light flux from among the first to third light fluxes from the optical disc and a second quartered light-receiving unit 13b that receives a light flux obtained by reflection of the remaining light fluxes from the optical disc. Such configuration ensures compatibility with optical discs of at least three kinds and enables miniaturization.
摘要:
A power adjustment method in which a modulation index is calculated from reproduced signals of patterns recorded by irradiating light onto an optical information recording medium with a recording power varied and an optimum power of irradiation light is set up using the modulation index. The power adjustment method includes calculating an optimum value PcO of a predetermined correction term Pc using a relation of a value obtained by subtracting the predetermined correction term Pc from the recording power and the modulation index, finding a value Pth of the recording power at which the modulation index becomes substantially zero in the relation of the value obtained by subtracting the optimum value PcO from the recording power and the modulation index, and setting up a value obtained by multiplying the value of Pth by a predetermined constant as a recording power of each of the recording patterns.