Patent ID: 11894030
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 21:
22. A tape drive, comprising:
a tape head comprising:
one or more modules, each of the one or more modules having a length of at least 12 mm, each of the one or more modules comprising:
at least one first servo reader disposed in a first row at a first end of the module;
a first set of readers disposed in the first row adjacent to the at least one first servo reader;
at least one second servo reader disposed in the first row, the first set of readers being disposed between the at least one first servo reader and the at least one second servo reader;
a second set of readers disposed in the first row adjacent to the at least one second servo reader;
at least one third servo reader disposed in the first row, the second set of readers being disposed between the at least one second servo reader and the at least one third servo reader; and
a plurality of writers disposed in a second row parallel to the first row; and

a controller coupled to the tape head, the controller configured to control each module to write data to a tape using the plurality of writers and to read verify the newly written data using the first and second sets of readers.