Patent ID: 11907048
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. The computer system of claim 19, wherein the stored program instructions to determine the one or more healthy regions that exclude the one or more damaged regions on the data storage cartridge further comprises:
program instructions to determine the one or more healthy regions on the data storage cartridge by shifting logical points defining a user data area of the data storage cartridge inward towards one another;
program instructions to determine the one or more healthy regions on the data storage cartridge by setting a wrap to turn around in a middle area of media of the data storage cartridge to avoid damaged regions; and
program instructions to determine the one or more healthy regions on the data storage cartridge by selecting a damaged region on the media of the data storage cartridge to be skipped over during read and write operations.