Patent ID: 8891198

Claim:
Apparatus for operating a tape storage device, comprising: a first tape skew determination unit configured to provide a first tape skew value concerning a skew of a tape in the tape storage device; a second tape skew determination unit configured to provide a second tape skew value concerning the skew of the tape; an actuator for adjusting one or more of: a rotational orientation of a tape head of the tape storage device, which tape head is provided for reading and/or writing data from/to the tape, and a motion direction of the tape; a skew feedback controller for converting a deviation of the first tape skew value from a reference skew value into a first skew control signal for controlling the actuator; a feed-forward controller for converting the second tape skew value into a second skew control signal for controlling the actuator; and a compensator for determining at least one compensation signal for the second skew control signal.