Patent ID: 6490132
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A tape cassette in which a tape body is wound across a pair of tape reels rotatably supported by the cassette body,the tape cassette including: a first write inhibit mechanism, said first write inhibit mechanism being at a location on said tape body corresponding to a write inhibit mechanism of another tape cassette, said another tape cassette being structurally adapted for loading into a recording/reproducing unit into which the tape cassette can be loaded; and a second write inhibit mechanism, said second write inhibit mechanism being at a different location on said tape body, said different location not corresponding to the write inhibit mechanism of the another tape cassette, wherein the first write inhibit mechanism is normally in a write inhibit state, for a high density recording tape cassette to permit distinction between the high density recording tape cassette and the low density recording cassette, wherein the tape cassette is further provided with a tape discrimination mechanism for discriminating kind of the tape body accommodated within the cassette body, wherein plural write inhibit mechanisms are provided as the first write inhibit mechanism, and wherein the tape body accommodated within the cassette body is cleaning tape for carrying out cleaning of a portion of the recording/reproducing apparatus.