Patent ID: 6947247

Claim:
A method of recording data in magnetic tape, the method comprising the steps of: moving a magnetic tape and a write element relative to one another for defining first and second recording directions; writing a first data track in the first recording direction during said movement and creating domains of opposite magnetization and a plurality of first spaced data transitions between the domains that are oriented at an azimuth angle of greater than twenty five degrees to a line that is perpendicular to the first recording direction so that the magnetized domains between the plurality of first data transitions together define the first data track; and writing a second data track adjacent to the first data track and in the second recording direction during said movement by creating domains of opposite magnetization and a plurality of spaced second data transitions between the domains that are oriented at a reverse azimuth angle greater than twenty five degrees to a line perpendicular to the second recording direction so that the magnetized domains between the plurality of second data transitions together define the second data track; whereby the adjacent first and second tracks are written with an included angle between the first data transitions and the second data transitions of greater than fifty degrees.